Baylor

#694 for girls in 2025, 407 births · #386 for boys in 2025, 822 births
Given to boys 70.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
2024 · 905 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
9,010
since 1918

Baylor over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#694407#386822
2024#807348#365905
2023#753374#391815
2022#812345#391816
2021#896302#410761
2020#1,027244#458648
2019#1,175202#587474
2018#1,250185#689352
2017#1,340173#758310
2016#1,192209#717341
2015#1,170215#811280
2014#1,674126#965218
2013#2,27981#1,047183
2012#2,26583#1,011195
2011#3,26750#1,219143
2010#4,10736#1,149161
2009#3,25251#1,272138
2008#4,44834#1,240140
2007#4,56732#1,317130
2006#5,38325#1,387115
2005#5,26624#1,323114
2004#5,55522#1,271118
2003#3,94634#1,173127
2002#6,12918#1,43390
2001#6,32217#1,48182
2000#5,93718#1,235108
1999#6,19116#1,50375
1998#6,36015#1,62264
1997#7,28312#1,79053
1996#8,13210#1,72554
1995#9,5538#2,10239
1994#13,4305#2,68527
1993#2,69726
1992#3,92015
1991#4,76011
1990#7,1786
1989#6,2297
1988#7,2705
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five boys were named Baylor! It came in at #4,179, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1918–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Baylor
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 21 spots since 2024 (#365#386)
  • 72 spots since 2020 (#458#386)
  • 425 spots since 2015 (#811#386)
  • Biggest jump: 154 spots in 2015 (#965#811)
  • Biggest drop: 41 spots in 2017 (#717#758)
Rise & fade · boys
106 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 2024 at #365 (905 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 1,904
  • Highest: 1 in 1,904 boys born in 2024 were named Baylor (0.05%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,078 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 52.9% of all boys named Baylor (4,767) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#4,179 (1918)#4,179
1920s21#3,014 (1922)#3,583
1930s0
1940s5#3,525 (1946)#3,525
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s23#5,926 (1986)#6,487
1990s370#1,503 (1999)#2,998
2000s1,162#1,173 (2003)#1,313
2010s2,657#587 (2019)#895
2020s4,767#365 (2024)#400

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Baylor in 2006

girls
#5,383
25 births · 1 in 76,048 girls
boys
#1,387
115 births · 1 in 17,872 boys

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #5,383Baylor25

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #1,387Baylor115
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 76,048 of them was named Baylor, which outranked 73.2% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Baylor
  1. #5,233Zoei26
  2. #5,233Zuleyma26
  3. #5,233Zyriah26
  4. #5,383Baylor25
  5. #5,383Aaniya25
  6. #5,383Abena25
  7. #5,383Adiana25
  8. #5,545Aaron24
  9. #5,545Aashna24
  10. #5,545Abeer24

Tied with 161 names at #5,383; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 8,571Bethzy#9,452#881
  2. 1,747Rihanna#2,278#531
  3. 965Yaretzi#1,803#838
  4. 921Betsy#1,668#747
  5. 612Evangeline#1,210#598
Fallers
  1. 2,134Mikalah#806#2,940
  2. 1,275Jolette#954#2,229
  3. 756Karol#818#1,574
  4. 446Litzy#388#834
  5. 305Devon#963#1,268

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 17,872 of them was named Baylor, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Baylor
  1. #1,379Kyson116
  2. #1,379Osbaldo116
  3. #1,379Varun116
  4. #1,387Baylor115
  5. #1,387Blayne115
  6. #1,387Kelan115
  7. #1,387Zev115
  8. #1,391Deegan114
  9. #1,391Everardo114
  10. #1,391Favian114

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 792Bode#1,648#856
  2. 790Talen#1,691#901
  3. 677Kingston#1,603#926
  4. 634Imanol#1,619#985
  5. 590Yandel#1,266#676
Fallers
  1. 2,208Baby#945#3,153
  2. 609Kanye#892#1,501
  3. 442Amarion#628#1,070
  4. 308Omarion#420#728
  5. 224Johnpaul#739#963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006