Baabu

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Baabu is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Bahrain it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Telugu, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 1.1K
  • QAQatar1 in 2K
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 4.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.4K

across 7 countries

#913

of 16M given names

3

recorded for this name

Sources
260

1.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 76K

Sweden

Spellings & scripts

BabuLatin · Hindi2.3M records
БабуCyrillic · Mongolian6 records
বাবBengali · Bangla5 records

Locally spelled Babu in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 22 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Baabu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#1082,888,9341.6M rec.42KBabu260
PK Pakistan#5217,60562 rec.listedBabu22
BD Bangladesh#4475,00612K rec.listedBabu95
SA Saudi Arabia#3003,6471.8K rec.Babu40
GB United Kingdom3,2603.2K rec.listedBabu98
MY Malaysia2,5332.2K rec.Babu27
AU Australia2,1653.9K rec.Babu98
AE United Arab Emirates#2131,7344K rec.Babu90
SG Singapore#4511,2073.3K rec.Babu61
QA Qatar#1361,1562.8K rec.Babu34
US United States1,08938K rec.1 in 305K13KBabu249
ID Indonesia5041.3K rec.Babu40

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • English115K33%
  • Telugu114K33%
  • Assamese114K33%
  • 1.4K1%
  • Swahili1.2K1%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English114,80033%
Telugu113,71833%
Assamese113,70333%
1,3671%
Swahili1,1651%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Baabu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Gujarati surname2.6K records spelled Baabu5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Baaboo, બાબુ, Bābu, Babu

  • Tamil surname292 records spelled Baabu16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia

    Languages: Tamil, Malayalam

    Also written மோகன், Mookan, മോഹൻ, Mōhan, மோகன

  • Punjabi surname48 records spelled Baabu8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Baab, Baabee, BABee, ਬਾਬੂ, Bābū

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Baabu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In abs, be full of dust

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dyu, conversation

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Baabu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)114K#34
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls99K#140
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls17K#83
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls6.5K#297
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls4.4K#642
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls3.9K#498
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls2.6K#1,360
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls2.2K#199
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls789#934
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls785#549
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls739#1,148
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls404#10,806

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Baabu?
We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Baabu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Baabu have the most bearers?
Baabu is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled babu.
How common is Baabu compared with other names?
In India, Baabu is the 108th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Baabu a male or female name?
Baabu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baabu

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Baabu” — the 108th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Baabu parses inside a full name →