Bailee
#1,069 for girls in 2025, 227 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 98.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 643 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,240since 1982
Bailee over time
Rank among girls' names. Bailee has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #1,069 | 227 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #990 | 261 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #936 | 283 | — | |
| 2022 | #889 | 313 | — | |
| 2021 | #816 | 340 | — | |
| 2020 | #850 | 320 | — | |
| 2019 | #694 | 416 | — | |
| 2018 | #627 | 477 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #581 | 521 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #588 | 521 | — | |
| 2015 | #552 | 562 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #559 | 551 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #517 | 575 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #501 | 612 | — | |
| 2011 | #552 | 529 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #527 | 553 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #566 | 540 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #517 | 598 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #506 | 632 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #643 | 447 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #649 | 427 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #620 | 442 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #613 | 437 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #528 | 521 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #470 | 591 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #429 | 658 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #431 | 641 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #414 | 640 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #407 | 643 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #479 | 503 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #582 | 395 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #885 | 217 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,006 | 184 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,156 | 152 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,270 | 132 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,385 | 114 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,667 | 82 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,911 | 64 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,493 | 41 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bailee! It came in at #7,469, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bailee is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#93 · 1 in 362
- Idaho#124 · 1 in 463
- North Dakota#138 · 1 in 474
- South Dakota#141 · 1 in 507
- Iowa#171 · 1 in 807
Best ever in a state: #58 in Wyoming, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #93 | 43 | 1 in 362 |
| Idaho | #124 | 12 | 1 in 463 |
| North Dakota | #138 | 6 | 1 in 474 |
| South Dakota | #141 | 6 | 1 in 507 |
| Iowa | #171 | 17 | 1 in 807 |
| Oklahoma | #176 | 22 | 1 in 764 |
| New Hampshire | #189 | 6 | 1 in 819 |
| Tennessee | #210 | 27 | 1 in 1,089 |
| Maine | #213 | 5 | 1 in 916 |
| Nebraska | #217 | 8 | 1 in 1,028 |
| South Carolina | #228 | 14 | 1 in 1,150 |
| Alabama | #230 | 17 | 1 in 1,220 |
| Arkansas | #239 | 10 | 1 in 1,148 |
| Nevada | #246 | 8 | 1 in 1,068 |
| Wisconsin | #257 | 18 | 1 in 1,391 |
| Kentucky | #263 | 13 | 1 in 1,520 |
| Indiana | #266 | 22 | 1 in 1,491 |
| Louisiana | #281 | 15 | 1 in 1,443 |
| Missouri | #286 | 18 | 1 in 1,640 |
| Colorado | #294 | 15 | 1 in 1,397 |
| Minnesota | #323 | 14 | 1 in 1,784 |
| Arizona | #332 | 18 | 1 in 1,560 |
| Washington | #345 | 16 | 1 in 1,789 |
| Oregon | #356 | 9 | 1 in 1,793 |
| Ohio | #372 | 26 | 1 in 2,378 |
| Kansas | #392 | 6 | 1 in 2,073 |
| Michigan | #417 | 20 | 1 in 2,598 |
| Texas | #423 | 57 | 1 in 2,454 |
| Georgia | #471 | 14 | 1 in 3,055 |
| Illinois | #514 | 22 | 1 in 3,178 |
| Florida | #562 | 20 | 1 in 3,668 |
| Pennsylvania | #583 | 13 | 1 in 4,482 |
| North Carolina | #634 | 9 | 1 in 4,451 |
| Massachusetts | #690 | 5 | 1 in 6,360 |
| California | #727 | 44 | 1 in 5,065 |
| Virginia | #740 | 6 | 1 in 5,543 |
| New Jersey | #855 | 6 | 1 in 6,959 |
| New York | #1,192 | 10 | 1 in 10,100 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bailee
- 79 spots since 2024 (#990 → #1,069)
- 219 spots since 2020 (#850 → #1,069)
- 517 spots since 2015 (#552 → #1,069)
- Biggest jump: 303 spots in 1995 (#885 → #582)
- Biggest drop: 156 spots in 2020 (#694 → #850)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 1997 at #407 (643 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1994–2024
- Highest: 1 in 2,707 girls born in 1997 were named Bailee (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,080 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.7% of all girls named Bailee (5,317) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 265 | #1,667 (1989) | #4,472 |
| 1990s | 3,621 | #407 (1997) | #802 |
| 2000s | 5,293 | #429 (2000) | #554 |
| 2010s | 5,317 | #501 (2012) | #570 |
| 2020s | 1,744 | #816 (2021) | #925 |
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.
Bailee in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 2,707 of them was named Bailee, which outranked 97.5% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 78,548 of them was named Bailee, which outranked 71.7% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,981Trevis25
- #2,981Wil25
- #2,981Yahya25
- #3,064Bailee24
- #3,064Alejandra24
- #3,064Amanda24
- #3,064Anjel24
- #3,160Alon23
- #3,160Amando23
- #3,160Amonte23
Tied with 95 names at #3,064; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.