as a Last Name
- 1,234
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Baba
Meaning & Origins
Japanese: from a word meaning ‘horse-riding ground’, ‘race track’; a common place name. The surname is found mostly in west central Japan. One Baba family in Kai (now Yamanashi prefecture) were samurai, vassals of the Takeda family.
| 19,600th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,234
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Baba per capita
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