Meaning not yet researched.
Baylor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 822 in 2025. Its best rank was #365 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #365 in 2024; #386 in 2025. About 67% of babies named Baylor in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#386 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #365.
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Baylor: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 822 boys in 2025. Peak: #365 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 905 (2024).
In 2025, 822 US boys were named Baylor, making it the 386th most common boys’ name of the year, down 21 places from #365 in 2024. That is 83 fewer than the 905 boys named Baylor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #365, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 905. For comparison, it was #811 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 407 US girls were named Baylor, making it the 694th most common girls’ name of the year, up 113 places from #807 in 2024. That is 59 more than the 348 girls named Baylor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #694, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 407. For comparison, it was #1,171 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baylor in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 12,731 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,787 babies named Baylor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,244 US boys were named Baylor; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 905. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,078 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Baylor ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #96 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Bayler, Bailor and Balor are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bayler (578), Bailor (108), Balor (36), Baelor (10), Baler (6).
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 Baylor in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 13 | #96 | — |
| Alabama | 50 | #105 | #275 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #108 | — |
| Mississippi | 28 | #109 | #199 |
| Nebraska | 22 | #116 | #437 |
| Arkansas | 29 | #121 | #487 |
| Louisiana | 35 | #144 | #273 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #169 | — |
| Kentucky | 31 | #182 | #497 |
| Oklahoma | 26 | #187 | #266 |
| Missouri | 37 | #193 | #662 |
| Utah | 26 | #206 | #608 |
| Idaho | 12 | #216 | — |
| Tennessee | 41 | #217 | #456 |
| Kansas | 18 | #220 | — |
| South Carolina | 25 | #226 | #486 |
| Indiana | 34 | #240 | #910 |
| Georgia | 51 | #242 | #709 |
| Iowa | 13 | #295 | #454 |
| Ohio | 39 | #307 | #912 |
| Minnesota | 17 | #339 | — |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #342 | — |
| North Carolina | 29 | #384 | #1,005 |
| Virginia | 16 | #475 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #528 | — |
| Washington | 13 | #533 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #541 | — |
| Illinois | 17 | #545 | — |
| Michigan | 13 | #604 | #988 |
| Texas | 50 | #615 | #796 |
| Florida | 23 | #681 | #1,101 |
| Colorado | 7 | #689 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #818 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #935 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,045 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,704 | #1,898 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 407 | #694 | 822 | #386 |
| 2024 | 348 | #807 | 905 | #365 |
| 2023 | 374 | #753 | 815 | #391 |
| 2022 | 345 | #813 | 816 | #391 |
| 2021 | 302 | #896 | 761 | #410 |
| 2020 | 244 | #1,027 | 648 | #458 |
| 2019 | 202 | #1,176 | 474 | #587 |
| 2018 | 185 | #1,251 | 352 | #689 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,342 | 310 | #758 |
| 2016 | 209 | #1,193 | 341 | #717 |
| 2015 | 215 | #1,171 | 280 | #811 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,677 | 218 | #965 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,286 | 183 | #1,047 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,267 | 195 | #1,011 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,275 | 143 | #1,221 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,120 | 161 | #1,149 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,259 | 138 | #1,272 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,471 | 140 | #1,240 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,580 | 130 | #1,317 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,410 | 115 | #1,387 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,293 | 114 | #1,324 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,593 | 118 | #1,272 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,954 | 127 | #1,173 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,175 | 90 | #1,433 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,366 | 82 | #1,482 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,973 | 108 | #1,235 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,229 | 75 | #1,504 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,423 | 64 | #1,622 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,336 | 53 | #1,794 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,226 | 54 | #1,726 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,672 | 39 | #2,107 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,685 | 27 | #2,692 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,707 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #3,935 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,789 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,266 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,286 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,391 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,001 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,617 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,567 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,911 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,036 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #3,906 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,232 |
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).