What is the younger or youngest child of the family called?

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This may be dated, but we always called the youngest the baby of the family. If the parents were older and the last child was some years younger than the other siblings, that child was the "caboose." My two youngest sisters were called, collectively, the "little ones."

The youngest of 4 in my husband's family was always called "junior".

Among my own siblings, we tease our youngest with "the after thought", an

"oops" or our parents "midlife surprise".

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