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.
Where Baily is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#612 · 1 in 4,135
- Wisconsin#666 · 1 in 5,043
- Pennsylvania#921 · 1 in 8,328
- Illinois#1,059 · 1 in 8,802
- Michigan#1,139 · 1 in 10,303
Best ever in a state: #326 in Nebraska, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #612 | 8 | 1 in 4,135 |
| Wisconsin | #666 | 5 | 1 in 5,043 |
| Pennsylvania | #921 | 7 | 1 in 8,328 |
| Illinois | #1,059 | 8 | 1 in 8,802 |
| Michigan | #1,139 | 5 | 1 in 10,303 |
| California | #3,059 | 5 | 1 in 44,203 |
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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 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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 20,788 of them was named Baily, which outranked 89.0% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,801Sammantha86
- #1,801Shaniah86
- #1,801Shaylyn86
- #1,819Baily85
- #1,819Evangeline85
- #1,819Janiya85
- #1,819Jaylen85
- #1,830Annaliese84
- #1,830Ariadna84
- #1,830Averi84
Tied with 10 names at #1,819; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 36,064 of them was named Baily, which outranked 83.7% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,833Reymundo54
- #1,833Roosevelt54
- #1,833Yakov54
- #1,849Baily53
- #1,849Bradyn53
- #1,849Breon53
- #1,849Dominque53
- #1,871Abdulrahman52
- #1,871Al52
- #1,871Andrea52
Tied with 21 names at #1,849; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.