How to Say "Baby Daddy" in Spanish

padre del bebé

/padɾe del bebe/from spelling rules

The English phrase baby daddy can be translated into Spanish as padre del bebé.

Padre del bebé is a neutral, descriptive term used to identify the biological father without the slangy connotation of the English term baby daddy.

What does it mean word for word?

The phrase is a literal translation consisting of padre (father), del (of the) and bebé (baby).

While padre del bebé is a formal way to say baby daddy in Spanish, el papá del bebé is a more colloquial and common way to express the same concept.

Padre del bebé is a formal way to say baby daddy in Spanish, whereas el papá del bebé is more informal.

In some Latin American dialects, using the diminutive papito instead of papá when referring to the father of a child can shift the meaning from familial to romantic or flirtatious.
If you use padre to refer to a man, you are using a word that can also function as a title for a priest. In a religious context, calling a man el padre could lead to a hilarious misunderstanding where people think you are introducing a clergyman.
The word bebé is a linguistic guest in Spanish, having been adopted from the French word bébé. This explains why the word looks almost identical to its English counterpart, despite the two languages having different roots.

Lucía is talking to Daniel about her child's father.

Sources

IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
Word origins: Wiktionary entries bebé, del, padre, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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