MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Baby mean?
Baby is an English word for an infant, adopted as a personal name in India. Indian naming use includes adults bearing it as an independent formal name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बेबी
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਬੇਬੀ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Baby in Indian usage
287,893 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 285,955 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,938 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 363 |
| 1940s | 927 |
| 1950s | 4,279 |
| 1960s | 26,360 |
| 1970s | 80,272 |
| 1980s | 110,810 |
| 1990s | 64,574 |
| Other decades | 308 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 122,413 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 77,488 |
| Jharkhand | 25,980 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 20,539 |
| Rajasthan | 15,785 |
| Haryana | 7,469 |
| Punjab | 5,949 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,312 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,646 |
| Assam | 1,574 |
| Tripura | 1,260 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,240 |
| Maharashtra | 1,192 |
| Odisha | 874 |
| Delhi | 481 |
| Chandigarh | 410 |
| Other states | 281 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
Recorded abroad
Official births registered in 2025, for the exact spelling shown.
| Jurisdiction | Spelling / recorded sex | Births | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England & Wales | Baby / M | 25 | 1,153 |
| England & Wales | Baby / F | 13 | 2,138 |
ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.
Explore related lists
Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Baby; Table_6, C1166 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Baby; Table_6, C1166
- England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Baby; Table_6, C2171 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Baby; Table_6, C2171