Baily
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #9,871
Given to girls 77.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 94 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,407since 1984
Baily over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #3,247 | 52 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #3,734 | 41 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #3,317 | 46 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #2,638 | 60 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #3,103 | 46 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #2,461 | 63 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #2,141 | 75 | #1,944 | 53 |
| 1999 | #1,804 | 88 | #1,749 | 58 |
| 1998 | #1,819 | 85 | #1,849 | 53 |
| 1997 | #1,671 | 94 | #1,753 | 55 |
| 1996 | #2,423 | 53 | #1,958 | 45 |
| 1995 | #2,367 | 55 | #3,191 | 21 |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Baily! It came in at #9,144, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Baily
- 3,323 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,917)
- 1,225 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #10,917)
- 3,940 spots since 2015 (#6,977 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 1997 at #1,671 (94 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,518 girls born in 1997 were named Baily (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.0% of all girls named Baily (535) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 82 | #3,893 (1988) | #5,974 |
| 1990s | 535 | #1,671 (1997) | #2,744 |
| 2000s | 503 | #2,141 (2000) | #3,230 |
| 2010s | 223 | #3,360 (2010) | #6,757 |
| 2020s | 64 | #7,594 (2024) | #9,457 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Baily in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 33,076 of them was named Baily, which outranked 84.8% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,398Shyan54
- #2,398Sindy54
- #2,398Tylar54
- #2,423Baily53
- #2,423Alexes53
- #2,423Amberlyn53
- #2,423Annah53
- #2,451Amberlee52
- #2,451Arica52
- #2,451Austyn52
Tied with 27 names at #2,423; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 42,096 of them was named Baily, which outranked 81.4% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,933Timmothy46
- #1,933Willem46
- #1,933Williams46
- #1,958Baily45
- #1,958Alexi45
- #1,958Arin45
- #1,958Avrohom45
- #1,986Alize44
- #1,986Aris44
- #1,986Avi44
Tied with 27 names at #1,958; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.