Baby emoji
👶 for announcements, pet names and jokes. Copy it here with the baby-related emoji.
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What the baby emoji means
👶 (baby) is for birth announcements, pregnancy updates and photos of newborns, and it has five skin tones. It is also a pet name (“hey baby 👶” is rarer than 🥰 but exists) and a tease (“stop being a 👶”). 🍼 is the bottle, 🧸 the teddy, 👼 the cherub, 🤰 🫃 🫄 pregnancy. Snapchat once used 👶 for a newly added friend, though its current list no longer includes it.
Unicode name: baby · U+1F476 · Emoji 0.6 (original set) · group: People & Body.
How people use it
- Announcements: 👶🍼🎉
- Pregnancy: 🤰👶 — see the pregnancy emoji guide
- Teasing: “such a 👶”
- Baby showers: 👶🎁
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| babyU+1F476 | Baby; announcements, a tease | Skin tones | |
| baby bottleU+1F37C | Feeding | ||
| baby angelU+1F47C | See the angel emoji guide | ||
| teddy bearU+1F9F8 | See the bear emoji guide |
Skin tones: from light to dark
The baby emoji supports five skin tones, each a separate sequence: 👶🏻 light, 👶🏼 medium-light, 👶🏽 medium, 👶🏾 medium-dark, and 👶🏿 dark. Sending several baby emojis in a row, like 👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻, can represent twins, triplets or a group of babies. The default 👶 without a tone is a yellow face. Skin tone modifiers let you represent different skin tones. When you paste a baby emoji with a tone, it becomes a longer character sequence. Not all platforms render every tone identically; the exact shade varies slightly between Apple, Google, Samsung and others.
Chat examples
Real messages with 👶, and a reply that fits.
she’s here 👶
🍼🥹 congratulations
👶 first steps!
!!
👼 sleeping at last
phew
Questions people ask
What does 👶 mean in a text?
A baby — an announcement or news — or, teasingly, that someone is acting like one.
Does the baby emoji have skin tones?
Yes, five, each a separate sequence.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
