Meaning not yet researched.
Bailee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 227 in 2025. Its best rank was #407 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #407 in 1997; #1,069 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Bailee in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,069 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #407.
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Bailee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 227 girls in 2025. Peak: #407 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 658 (2000).
In 2025, 227 US girls were named Bailee, making it the 1,069th most common girls’ name of the year, down 78 places from #991 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 261 girls named Bailee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #407, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 658, in 2000. For comparison, it was #552 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bailee in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 8 babies. In all, 16,483 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,409 babies named Bailee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,679 US girls were named Bailee; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 521. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,080 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bailee ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #274 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bailey (132,544 babies since 1880), Baylee (22,403 babies since 1880), Baylie (3,498 babies since 1880) and Bayley (2,656 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Baillie are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Baillie (409).
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 Bailee 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 16 | #274 | #190 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #446 | #197 |
| Alabama | 8 | #583 | #233 |
| Maryland | 8 | #608 | #424 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #626 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #701 | #525 |
| Indiana | 8 | #733 | #583 |
| Missouri | 7 | #741 | #381 |
| Michigan | 10 | #744 | #364 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #747 | — |
| Ohio | 12 | #752 | #432 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #775 | #856 |
| Georgia | 11 | #863 | #253 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #989 | #456 |
| Texas | 27 | #1,042 | #571 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,057 | #503 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,128 | #424 |
| California | 16 | #1,423 | #1,029 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,435 | #924 |
| New York | 8 | #1,548 | #863 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,214 | #595 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 227 | #1,069 | 6 | #10,851 |
| 2024 | 261 | #991 | 5 | #12,564 |
| 2023 | 283 | #936 | — | — |
| 2022 | 313 | #890 | — | — |
| 2021 | 340 | #817 | — | — |
| 2020 | 320 | #850 | — | — |
| 2019 | 416 | #694 | — | — |
| 2018 | 477 | #627 | 5 | #12,377 |
| 2017 | 521 | #581 | 5 | #12,488 |
| 2016 | 521 | #588 | — | — |
| 2015 | 562 | #552 | 5 | #12,287 |
| 2014 | 551 | #559 | 6 | #10,861 |
| 2013 | 575 | #517 | 6 | #10,893 |
| 2012 | 612 | #501 | — | — |
| 2011 | 529 | #555 | 5 | #12,489 |
| 2010 | 553 | #527 | 7 | #9,801 |
| 2009 | 540 | #566 | 5 | #12,692 |
| 2008 | 598 | #517 | 9 | #8,385 |
| 2007 | 632 | #506 | 6 | #11,068 |
| 2006 | 447 | #644 | 15 | #5,547 |
| 2005 | 427 | #649 | 10 | #7,166 |
| 2004 | 442 | #620 | 11 | #6,577 |
| 2003 | 437 | #613 | 11 | #6,301 |
| 2002 | 521 | #528 | 12 | #5,762 |
| 2001 | 591 | #470 | 13 | #5,411 |
| 2000 | 658 | #429 | 24 | #3,433 |
| 1999 | 641 | #431 | 19 | #3,853 |
| 1998 | 640 | #414 | 14 | #4,669 |
| 1997 | 643 | #407 | 24 | #3,073 |
| 1996 | 503 | #479 | 10 | #5,569 |
| 1995 | 395 | #582 | 10 | #5,535 |
| 1994 | 217 | #886 | — | — |
| 1993 | 184 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1992 | 152 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1991 | 132 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1990 | 114 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,644 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,418 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,539 | — | — |
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).