# Babette (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/babette/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,287 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 3,282 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 8 | 7,467 |
| 1985 | 8 | 7,623 |
| 1986 | 6 | 9,664 |
| 1987 | 9 | 7,417 |
| 1988 | 5 | 11,990 |
| 1989 | 5 | 12,582 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,188 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,661 |
| 1992 | 7 | 10,608 |
| 1995 | 7 | 10,643 |
| 2006 | 5 | 17,520 |
| 2013 | 7 | 13,388 |
| 2021 | 5 | 15,616 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,552 |
| 2025 | 5 | 15,293 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | 4,106 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |

## People named Babette

- Babette Cole, English children's writer and illustrator (1950–2017)
- Babette van Veen, Dutch actress, singer and writer
- Jean Stein, American writer and editor (1934-2017)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.