Megan
What US state did your BABIC ancestor settled in?
What was his/her first name?
You say came in 1903 but what port? If you have your ancestor's arrival manifest, there should be a place of birth of last residence.
BABICS would be Hungarian spelling
BABICH could be or is English spelling
BABIC^ is Slavic spelling found in Croatia's phone book;
few sites for your research to check out for what and where.
http://www.rodoslovlje.com/http://croatia-in-english.com/