Bimbo as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Bimbo

What is the meaning of the name Bimbo ?

The baby name Bimbo is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced BIM-boh.

Bimbo is Italian in Origin.

Bimbo is Italian in origin, from bimbo, a masculine noun for a small boy or young child. The earliest relevant form is the Italian common noun bimbo, alongside feminine bimba; both belong to a nursery-word family centered on bambino, child, with reduplicated bamb-/bimb- syllables typical of infant-directed speech. Literally, the name-word signifies little boy or baby boy, not an abstract virtue or religious concept.

In English, Bimbo is better known as slang than as a personal name. American use is recorded by 1919 for an unintelligent or brutish man, shifted in the 1920s toward women in popular culture, and by the late twentieth century had become a pejorative tied to sexualized dumb blonde stereotypes. Italian retains the child sense, while English usage makes the word difficult as a given name. Related forms include Bimba, the Italian feminine, and Bambino as the fuller lexical base rather than a given-name variant.