Bayleigh
#2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 272 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,190since 1989
Bayleigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Bayleigh has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,326 | 78 |
| 2024 | #2,134 | 89 |
| 2023 | #2,142 | 89 |
| 2022 | #1,659 | 127 |
| 2021 | #1,354 | 163 |
| 2020 | #1,303 | 169 |
| 2019 | #1,247 | 187 |
| 2018 | #1,319 | 172 |
| 2017 | #1,231 | 195 |
| 2016 | #1,192 | 209 |
| 2015 | #1,068 | 246 |
| 2014 | #1,011 | 258 |
| 2013 | #988 | 253 |
| 2012 | #939 | 272 |
| 2011 | #1,075 | 229 |
| 2010 | #1,127 | 218 |
| 2009 | #1,241 | 199 |
| 2008 | #1,359 | 178 |
| 2007 | #1,370 | 176 |
| 2006 | #1,574 | 137 |
| 2005 | #1,574 | 129 |
| 2004 | #1,324 | 161 |
| 2003 | #1,395 | 142 |
| 2002 | #1,308 | 149 |
| 2001 | #1,427 | 132 |
| 2000 | #1,241 | 158 |
| 1999 | #1,309 | 138 |
| 1998 | #1,341 | 131 |
| 1997 | #1,319 | 131 |
| 1996 | #1,780 | 83 |
| 1995 | #2,083 | 65 |
| 1994 | #3,536 | 31 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bayleigh! It came in at #6,160, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 14 girls a year got the name.
Where Bayleigh is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#279 · 1 in 993
- Alabama#512 · 1 in 2,131
- Kentucky#554 · 1 in 2,554
- Oklahoma#625 · 1 in 2,624
- Louisiana#648 · 1 in 2,840
Best ever in a state: #198 in Maine, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #279 | 11 | 1 in 993 |
| Alabama | #512 | 9 | 1 in 2,131 |
| Kentucky | #554 | 7 | 1 in 2,554 |
| Oklahoma | #625 | 6 | 1 in 2,624 |
| Louisiana | #648 | 7 | 1 in 2,840 |
| South Carolina | #651 | 6 | 1 in 2,959 |
| Tennessee | #757 | 8 | 1 in 3,825 |
| Missouri | #821 | 6 | 1 in 4,329 |
| Ohio | #832 | 11 | 1 in 4,707 |
| Pennsylvania | #883 | 10 | 1 in 5,114 |
| Georgia | #959 | 9 | 1 in 5,236 |
| North Carolina | #1,003 | 8 | 1 in 5,673 |
| Virginia | #1,069 | 6 | 1 in 6,005 |
| Michigan | #1,143 | 6 | 1 in 6,878 |
| Florida | #1,198 | 11 | 1 in 7,814 |
| Texas | #1,333 | 18 | 1 in 8,882 |
| Illinois | #1,606 | 5 | 1 in 11,109 |
| California | #2,429 | 8 | 1 in 24,469 |
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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 Bayleigh
- 192 spots since 2024 (#2,134 → #2,326)
- 1,023 spots since 2020 (#1,303 → #2,326)
- 1,258 spots since 2015 (#1,068 → #2,326)
- Biggest jump: 136 spots in 2012 (#1,075 → #939)
- Biggest drop: 49 spots in 2013 (#939 → #988)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2012 at #939 (272 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2012–2013
- Highest: 1 in 6,474 girls born in 2012 were named Bayleigh (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,606 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.1% of all girls named Bayleigh (2,239) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #6,160 (1989) | #6,160 |
| 1990s | 662 | #1,309 (1999) | #3,171 |
| 2000s | 1,561 | #1,241 (2009) | #1,381 |
| 2010s | 2,239 | #939 (2012) | #1,120 |
| 2020s | 715 | #1,303 (2020) | #1,820 |
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.
Bayleigh in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 8,854 of them was named Bayleigh, which outranked 93.3% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,224Nellie196
- #1,224Nyomi196
- #1,224Taya196
- #1,231Bayleigh195
- #1,231Vayda195
- #1,233Ashton194
- #1,233Jaida194
- #1,233Marlene194
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.