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Updated August 16, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Serbian and Croatian (Babić); Slovenian, Czech, and Slovak (all Babič) : metronymic or a nickname from baba ‘(old) woman’, ‘grandmother’, denoting a descendant of an older woman, or a child raised by a grandmother.
  • With a long rising accent, this is a Bosnian name from Turkish babo ‘grandfather’.

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