Baylor
#694 for girls in 2025, 407 births · #386 for boys in 2025, 822 births
Given to boys 70.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 905 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,010since 1918
Baylor 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 | #694 | 407 | #386 | 822 |
| 2024 | #807 | 348 | #365 | 905 |
| 2023 | #753 | 374 | #391 | 815 |
| 2022 | #812 | 345 | #391 | 816 |
| 2021 | #896 | 302 | #410 | 761 |
| 2020 | #1,027 | 244 | #458 | 648 |
| 2019 | #1,175 | 202 | #587 | 474 |
| 2018 | #1,250 | 185 | #689 | 352 |
| 2017 | #1,340 | 173 | #758 | 310 |
| 2016 | #1,192 | 209 | #717 | 341 |
| 2015 | #1,170 | 215 | #811 | 280 |
| 2014 | #1,674 | 126 | #965 | 218 |
| 2013 | #2,279 | 81 | #1,047 | 183 |
| 2012 | #2,265 | 83 | #1,011 | 195 |
| 2011 | #3,267 | 50 | #1,219 | 143 |
| 2010 | #4,107 | 36 | #1,149 | 161 |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 | #1,272 | 138 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #1,240 | 140 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | #1,317 | 130 |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 | #1,387 | 115 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | #1,323 | 114 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #1,271 | 118 |
| 2003 | #3,946 | 34 | #1,173 | 127 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #1,433 | 90 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #1,481 | 82 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | #1,235 | 108 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #1,503 | 75 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #1,622 | 64 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #1,725 | 54 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #2,102 | 39 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | — | #2,697 | 26 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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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.
Where Baylor is popular in 1918
No state had 5 or more boys named Baylor in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Baylor
- 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)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2024 at #365 (905 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
- 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%)
- 52.9% of all boys named Baylor (4,767) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,179 (1918) | #4,179 |
| 1920s | 21 | #3,014 (1922) | #3,583 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,525 (1946) | #3,525 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 23 | #5,926 (1986) | #6,487 |
| 1990s | 370 | #1,503 (1999) | #2,998 |
| 2000s | 1,162 | #1,173 (2003) | #1,313 |
| 2010s | 2,657 | #587 (2019) | #895 |
| 2020s | 4,767 | #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 1918
Top boys' names in 1918
More about 1918
boys
1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 202,696 of them was named Baylor, which outranked 13.2% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 634 names at #4,179; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.