Entry № 1198 · French origin

Babette Babette — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"A form of Barbara"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a form of barbara".

Babette is a variant spelling of Barbara, a dainty French diminutive.

A form of Barbara — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Babette
Transliteration
Babette
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Babette stands.

Babette 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.

Babettes before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Babette.

The number behind Babette.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Babette reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.