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babin Name Meaning and History

  1. French: from a pet name derived from the personal name Babylas; it was the name of patriarch of Antioch who was beatified in the 3rd century.
  2. Jewish (from Belarus): metronymic from the personal name Babe.
  3. Jewish (from Belarus): habitational name from Babino, a village in Belarus.
  4. Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish (Babyn): metronymic or patronymic from baba ‘grandmother’, ‘old woman’, either meaning son of an old woman or a nickname denoting a fussy man.
  5. Serbian: nickname from baba ‘grandmother’ or babo ‘father’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of babin Families in the US in 1920
Number of babin families
 188-374
 63-187
 1-62
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