baby mama

Meaning

Noun

• Mother of child in common, particularly unmarried.

Origin

• Formed in African-American Vernacular English, attested since the 1980s and popularized in the 2000s. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-mother ("pregnant woman") (1966), alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.