The name isn't short for anything, as it comes from "Bamm-Bamm Rubble" a character in The Flintstones. Adebayo's given first name is Edrice. Adebayo responded to McGee by saying it meant "by any ...

You cannot look at the Flintstones characters and not think about ... so they end up adopting the super-powerful Bamm-Bamm.

The film, called Meet the Flintstones, will apparently be an origin story. It presumably will not include characters who appeared in later seasons of the original show, like Pebbles, Bam-Bam ...

Choose your Flintstone character from the famous prime-time TV show. You can choose from Fred, his pal-of-pals Barney, his baby girl Pebbles, her beau Bam-Bam, and the Flinstone family pet Dino.