Entry № 1204 · Other origin

Baaba Baaba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAH-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Akan day-name"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "akan day-name".

Baaba is a girls' name meaning akan day-name.

Akan day-name.

The name in its native script.

Baaba
Transliteration
Baaba
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɑː.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Baaba stands.

Baaba does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Baabas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Baaba Maal Senegalese
Akan day-name + Baaba Maal Senegalese world-music singer + Senegambian musical heritage + ~20 million Akan speakers + kradin soul name
African music

Names connected to Baaba.

The number behind Baaba.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Baaba reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.