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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 27,013 of them was named Bayley, which outranked 87.2% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,609Tanaya71
- #2,609Zia71
- #2,609Zykeria71
- #2,630Bayley70
- #2,630Alayla70
- #2,630Amal70
- #2,630Arihanna70
- #2,663Angelena69
- #2,663Annaleigh69
- #2,663Beth69
Tied with 32 names at #2,630; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 226,683 of them was named Bayley, which outranked 43.1% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,698Zerrick10
- #7,698Zimri10
- #7,698Zymarion10
- #8,324Bayley9
- #8,324Aahan9
- #8,324Aamari9
- #8,324Aayaan9
- #9,019Aarik8
- #9,019Aarit8
- #9,019Abdiaziz8
Tied with 694 names at #8,324; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.