Bayley
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births · Last seen for boys in 2014 at #12,108
Given to girls 83.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 150 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,221since 1982
Bayley 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 | #4,460 | 31 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,928 | 56 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,384 | 76 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #3,000 | 57 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #2,630 | 70 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #2,418 | 78 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #2,850 | 61 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #3,317 | 46 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #2,851 | 56 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #2,771 | 56 | #3,838 | 22 |
| 2002 | #2,263 | 72 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #2,096 | 79 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #1,588 | 111 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #1,525 | 112 | #2,023 | 47 |
| 1998 | #1,508 | 112 | #1,700 | 60 |
| 1997 | #1,204 | 150 | #1,730 | 56 |
| 1996 | #1,669 | 91 | #1,986 | 44 |
| 1995 | #1,531 | 100 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #2,639 | 46 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,777 | 43 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bayley! It came in at #7,469, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Bayley
- 497 spots since 2024 (#3,963 → #4,460)
- 7 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #4,460)
- 755 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #4,460)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 1997 at #1,204 (150 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,605 girls born in 1997 were named Bayley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,847 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.9% of all girls named Bayley (752) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 95 | #4,172 (1988) | #5,699 |
| 1990s | 752 | #1,204 (1997) | #2,397 |
| 2000s | 686 | #1,588 (2000) | #2,578 |
| 2010s | 511 | #2,384 (2017) | #3,236 |
| 2020s | 177 | #3,963 (2024) | #4,738 |
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.
Bayley in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 15,838 of them was named Bayley, which outranked 91.0% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,515Lora113
- #1,515Phoenix113
- #1,515Yulisa113
- #1,525Bayley112
- #1,525Adela112
- #1,525Harper112
- #1,525Lexy112
- #1,532Jaelynn111
- #1,532Jalisa111
- #1,532Malika111
Tied with 6 names at #1,525; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 40,854 of them was named Bayley, which outranked 82.6% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,995Trevaughn48
- #1,995Wiley48
- #1,995Zach48
- #2,023Bayley47
- #2,023Aharon47
- #2,023Al47
- #2,023Alston47
- #2,063Amer46
- #2,063Amon46
- #2,063Arin46
Tied with 39 names at #2,023; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.