[2] The first recorded use of baby blue as a color name in English was in 1892.

"Beau" means "beautiful" in French.

In the late 1960s, philosopher Alan Watts, who lived in Sausalito, a suburb of San Francisco, suggested that police cars be painted baby blue and white instead of black and white.

Watts also suggested that the police should wear baby blue uniforms because, he asserted, this would make them less likely to commit acts of police brutality than if they were wearing the usual dark blue uniforms.

Baby blue is an official color used in the flag of Argentina.