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 | ||
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| 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 | |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#232 · 1 in 910
- Alabama#248 · 1 in 1,050
- Idaho#281 · 1 in 1,006
- Arkansas#290 · 1 in 1,106
- Tennessee#311 · 1 in 1,448
Best ever in a state: #70 in Alabama, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #232 | 27 | 1 in 910 |
| Alabama | #248 | 22 | 1 in 1,050 |
| Idaho | #281 | 8 | 1 in 1,006 |
| Arkansas | #290 | 13 | 1 in 1,106 |
| Tennessee | #311 | 25 | 1 in 1,448 |
| West Virginia | #324 | 5 | 1 in 1,563 |
| Missouri | #342 | 19 | 1 in 1,664 |
| Kentucky | #343 | 13 | 1 in 1,678 |
| Mississippi | #355 | 8 | 1 in 1,680 |
| Nebraska | #390 | 6 | 1 in 1,659 |
| Kansas | #417 | 8 | 1 in 1,957 |
| Oklahoma | #436 | 10 | 1 in 2,027 |
| Georgia | #483 | 19 | 1 in 2,830 |
| Iowa | #498 | 6 | 1 in 2,539 |
| Utah | #550 | 7 | 1 in 2,997 |
| North Carolina | #643 | 12 | 1 in 4,331 |
| South Carolina | #651 | 5 | 1 in 4,241 |
| Indiana | #668 | 8 | 1 in 4,447 |
| Arizona | #669 | 8 | 1 in 4,506 |
| Wisconsin | #759 | 5 | 1 in 5,385 |
| Texas | #792 | 29 | 1 in 6,387 |
| Illinois | #855 | 10 | 1 in 6,417 |
| Virginia | #863 | 6 | 1 in 6,936 |
| Ohio | #897 | 8 | 1 in 7,415 |
| Michigan | #981 | 6 | 1 in 7,957 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,195 | 5 | 1 in 11,846 |
| Florida | #1,236 | 8 | 1 in 12,242 |
| New York | #1,806 | 5 | 1 in 19,999 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 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 |
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| 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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 8,479 of them was named Baylor, which outranked 93.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,188Malani210
- #1,188Rita210
- #1,188Theresa210
- #1,192Baylor209
- #1,192Bayleigh209
- #1,192Ivana209
- #1,192Preslee209
- #1,197Indie208
- #1,197Kasey208
- #1,197Kinzley208
Tied with 4 names at #1,192; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 5,565 of them was named Baylor, which outranked 95.0% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).