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Babbette
How to Pronounce Babbette
Pronounced bab-ET /bæˈbɛt/Low
Meaning: Babbette, with a doubled b, is a variant of the French Babette, a pet form used for both Barbara, from the Greek for 'foreign' or 'stranger,' and Elisabeth, from the Hebrew for 'my God is an oath.' Its meaning follows whichever parent name a family had in mind.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Babbette is a doubled-consonant spelling of Babette, a French diminutive that could stand in for Barbara, from the Greek for 'foreign woman,' or Elisabeth, from the Hebrew for 'my God is an oath.' As a birth name it brought a light, fashionable French air to an otherwise familiar root.
The name was always rare and distinctly mid-century, peaking around 1963 with only about twenty girls a year. A woman named Babbette from that peak is now in her early sixties, placing the name in the era's taste for French-flavored diminutives.
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What does the name Babbette mean?
It is a spelling of the French Babette, a diminutive of Barbara ('foreign woman') or Elisabeth ('my God is an oath').
How do you pronounce Babbette?
It is said bab-ET /bæˈbɛt/, two syllables with the stress on the second.
Is Babbette a boy or girl name?
Babbette is used here as a girl's name.
How popular is Babbette?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the early nineteen-sixties.