Baby
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: baby
Etymology
Two main origins:
Proper noun
Baby (plural Babys)
- A surname.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Baby is the 36426th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 614 individuals. Baby is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (71.01%) and White (19.54%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Baby”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 78.
Etymology
From baby. Also from an error in birth registration. When the parent has not decided on a name of the child, the child is often listed as baby + surname.
Proper noun
Baby
- a female given name
- (rare) a male given name
Etymology
Mid-19th-century borrowing from English baby. The use as a term of endearment is a later borrowing from late-20th-century pop culture; it remains far more common in pop music than in real life.
Pronunciation
Noun
Baby n (strong, genitive Babys, plural Babys or (now proscribed) Babies, diminutive Babychen n or Babylein n)
Declension
Declension of Baby [neuter, strong]
1Now proscribed.
Derived terms
- Babybauch
- babyeinfach
- Babykleidung
- babyleicht
- Babyphon
- Babypuder
- Babyschuh
- Babysprache
- Babytragetasche
- Babywäsche
- Babywippe (“baby bouncer”)
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “Baby” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Baby” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Baby” in Duden online
Baby on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
