Pagan Babies were an American rock band formed by Kat Bjelland and Courtney Love in 1985.

Love had initially conceived the band in Portland, Oregon with Bjelland under the name Sugar Babydoll, and the group was joined by bassist Jennifer Finch upon their relocation to San Francisco.

Courtney Love had originally come up with the name and idea for the band in the early 1980s when she was a teenager in Portland,[a] but aborted the project and moved to San Francisco in 1982 where she had a brief stint as a singer for Faith No More.

[3] According to Bjelland, after the two had met, Love, who was looking to form an all-female rock group, "fell to her knees" and begged "please, please be my guitarist.

So we ended up making this faux Cocteau Twins music, but I didn't really have the voice, and I was singing in a register that was way too high for me.

The band soon began rehearsing in friends' bedrooms, and played numerous covers and some originals during their jam sessions.

A clip from the master tape of the demo would also appear on the Hole track "Starbelly," which was released on the band's debut album Pretty on the Inside in September 1991.

It was also rumoured in 2006 that Sympathy for the Record Industry, Hole's one-time label, were planning to release at least one song from the Pagan Babies demos in a compilation, but the idea was later dropped.