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babb Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly Devon): probably from a Middle English nickname, bab(e) ‘baby’, but possibly from the female personal name Babb(e), a pet form of Barbara (see Barbary), or the Old English personal name Babba, found in several place names, including Babbacombe in Devon and Babington in Somerset.
  2. Variant of German Bobb (see Bob).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of babb Families in the US in 1920
Number of babb families
 57-112
 20-56		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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