'babehood' originates from English, specifically the word 'babe' + the suffix '-hood', where 'babe' meant 'infant' and '-hood' meant 'state or condition'.

'babe' changed from Middle English 'babe' (possibly from baby-talk forms like 'baba'), and '-hood' comes from Old English 'hād' meaning 'state, condition'; these combined in Modern English to form 'babehood'.

Initially, it meant 'the state of being an infant', but over time it has also been used occasionally in a figurative sense to mean 'a period or quality of youthful charm'.