Meaning not yet researched.
Baylee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 248 in 2025. Its best rank was #296 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #296 in 1997; #1,008 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Baylee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,008 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #296.
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Baylee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 248 girls in 2025. Peak: #296 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 968 (1997).
In 2025, 248 US girls were named Baylee, making it the 1,008th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6 places from #1,014 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 251 girls named Baylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #296, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 968. For comparison, it was #405 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baylee in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 6 babies. In all, 22,403 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,727 babies named Baylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,032 US girls were named Baylee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 633. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,481 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Baylee ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #278 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), Bailee (16,483 babies since 1880), Baylie (3,498 babies since 1880) and Bayley (2,656 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Balie and Baelie 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: Balie (55), Baelie (11).
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 Baylee 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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 6 | #278 | #106 |
| Idaho | 5 | #414 | #162 |
| Ohio | 21 | #506 | #235 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #557 | #252 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #611 | #351 |
| Alabama | 7 | #644 | #161 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #667 | #177 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #715 | #525 |
| Colorado | 6 | #812 | #576 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #822 | #288 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #824 | #467 |
| Michigan | 8 | #874 | #374 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #913 | #311 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,007 | #539 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,058 | #439 |
| Texas | 26 | #1,065 | #601 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,073 | #412 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,095 | #285 |
| New York | 10 | #1,330 | #621 |
| California | 15 | #1,506 | #601 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 2024 | 251 | #1,014 | 8 | #9,099 |
| 2023 | 303 | #887 | — | — |
| 2022 | 317 | #877 | 5 | #12,591 |
| 2021 | 371 | #768 | 7 | #9,850 |
| 2020 | 349 | #780 | — | — |
| 2019 | 435 | #666 | 7 | #9,877 |
| 2018 | 539 | #572 | 8 | #8,927 |
| 2017 | 586 | #528 | 8 | #8,946 |
| 2016 | 633 | #492 | — | — |
| 2015 | 791 | #405 | 7 | #9,689 |
| 2014 | 901 | #362 | 11 | #7,124 |
| 2013 | 938 | #346 | 6 | #10,896 |
| 2012 | 931 | #338 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2011 | 777 | #407 | 14 | #5,979 |
| 2010 | 802 | #402 | 13 | #6,392 |
| 2009 | 861 | #378 | 19 | #4,940 |
| 2008 | 772 | #417 | 11 | #7,244 |
| 2007 | 829 | #394 | 14 | #5,944 |
| 2006 | 670 | #470 | 18 | #4,878 |
| 2005 | 606 | #500 | 25 | #3,723 |
| 2004 | 591 | #498 | 31 | #3,166 |
| 2003 | 695 | #433 | 36 | #2,736 |
| 2002 | 717 | #406 | 35 | #2,693 |
| 2001 | 792 | #375 | 51 | #2,054 |
| 2000 | 905 | #340 | 49 | #2,052 |
| 1999 | 844 | #354 | 63 | #1,671 |
| 1998 | 944 | #317 | 60 | #1,700 |
| 1997 | 968 | #296 | 73 | #1,468 |
| 1996 | 853 | #331 | 41 | #2,074 |
| 1995 | 696 | #380 | 30 | #2,513 |
| 1994 | 173 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1993 | 151 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1992 | 115 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,140 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,102 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,245 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,127 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,405 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,225 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,197 | — | — |
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).