Baela is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Baila, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Baela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,755 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Baela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,755 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Baela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,755 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 62 (2025).
In 2025, 62 US girls were named Baela, making it the 2,755th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,013 places from #3,768 in 2024. That is 22 more than the 40 girls named Baela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,755, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 62. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baela in 4 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2014 with 5 babies. In all, 115 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 110 babies named Baela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 110 US girls were named Baela; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Baela ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,927 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Baila (3,416 babies since 1880) and Bayla (1,066 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Baela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,927 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,684 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).