Type Word Usage Old Slavic (Hypothetical) Scripts баба(Church Slavic) Meaning & History Slavic word meaning "grandmother, old woman" [1][2]. Related ItemsFamily Tree·Details Surname DescendantsBabić(Croatian) Babić(Serbian) Babič(Slovene) Same Spellingbaba 2 Sources & References Derksen, Rick. Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon. Brill, 2008, page 32. Trubachyov, Oleg. Etimologicheskiy Slovar Slavyanskikh Yazykov (vol. 1). Moscow, 1974-, page 106.