Babak is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning “father.” In England & Wales it was given to 3 boys in 2009.
Babak at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Persian
Meaning
“father”
About the name Babak
Babak belongs to the Persian tradition. Its meaning — “father” — is the sense carried by its Persian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Babak first appears in Social Security records in 1968. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2477 in 1987, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 287 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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