Meaning not yet researched.
Baily: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,672 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,672 in 1997; #11,092 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Baily in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,092 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,672.
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Baily: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,672 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 94 (1997).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Baily, making it the 11,092nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,440 places from #7,652 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 14 girls named Baily in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,672, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 94. For comparison, it was #7,024 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Baily in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,753, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 58. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baily in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 6 babies. In all, 1,824 US babies have been given the name, 77% of them girls and 23% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 772 babies named Baily.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 112 US girls were named Baily; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bailey (132,544 babies since 1880), Bailee (16,483 babies since 1880), Bayley (2,656 babies since 1880) and Bailie (1,654 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 Baily in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,092 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,652 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,126 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,147 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,058 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,347 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,603 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,225 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,852 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,011 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,024 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,493 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,046 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,589 | — | — |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,699 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,655 | 7 | #9,969 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,254 | 6 | #11,069 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,743 | 11 | #6,959 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,321 | 9 | #7,691 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,341 | 17 | #4,817 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,642 | 11 | #6,302 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,105 | 31 | #2,951 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,464 | 35 | #2,685 |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,145 | 53 | #1,944 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,810 | 58 | #1,753 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,819 | 53 | #1,849 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,672 | 55 | #1,754 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,427 | 45 | #1,961 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,370 | 21 | #3,201 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,456 | 5 | #8,909 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,722 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,903 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,953 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,784 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,506 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,241 | — | — |
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).