Meaning not yet researched.
Bayley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,204 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,204 in 1997; #4,469 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bayley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,469 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,204.
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Bayley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,204 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 150 (1997).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Bayley, making it the 4,469th most common girls’ name of the year, down 496 places from #3,973 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 37 girls named Bayley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,204, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 150. For comparison, it was #3,711 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Bayley in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,701, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 60. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bayley in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 8 babies. In all, 2,656 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 997 babies named Bayley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 417 US girls were named Bayley; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bailey (132,544 babies since 1880), Bayleigh (5,190 babies since 1880), Baylee (22,403 babies since 1880) and Bailee (16,483 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Bayley 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 | 31 | #4,469 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,023 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,500 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,094 | — | — |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,438 | 5 | #12,310 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,524 | 9 | #8,217 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,005 | 5 | #12,701 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,633 | 9 | #8,389 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,421 | 12 | #6,667 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,854 | 10 | #7,485 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,322 | 14 | #5,598 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,856 | 18 | #4,621 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,775 | 22 | #3,846 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,270 | 23 | #3,677 |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,100 | 21 | #3,853 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,588 | 37 | #2,532 |
| 1999 | 112 | #1,526 | 47 | #2,028 |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,509 | 60 | #1,701 |
| 1997 | 150 | #1,204 | 56 | #1,731 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,672 | 44 | #1,989 |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,531 | 29 | #2,560 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,434 | 9 | #5,909 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,881 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,690 | 5 | #8,014 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,188 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,788 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,508 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,349 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,546 | — | — |
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).