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Bailey

Girls' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~129,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#208 among girls
Births in 2025
1,584 132,544 since 1880
Typical age
22 years, median

Bailey popularity over time

Bailey rank by birth year, 1916–2025Bailey ranked #3,919 in 1916 and #208 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #60, in 1998.#100#1,000#10,000#208best #60 in 1998192019401960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1916–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1998: 7,437 births recorded as Bailey. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Across the record, 16 years put Bailey in the top 100.

The 2025 position is #208, on 1,584 births. The ten-year change is -47%. Year on year the rank dropped by 26.

Babies named Bailey per yearPeaks at 7,437 births in 1998.7,437 in 1998018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Bailey?

Roughly 129,400 Baileys are alive in the US right now. That is out of 132,544 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 109,700 women and 19,800 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Bailey?

The typical living Bailey is 22 years old. The 2000s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Bailey a millennial-era name.

Your Bailey

Ages of living people named BaileyHalf of living Baileys are older than 22 and half younger.median 22020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Bailey is most common

The name is concentrated in Hawaii, at 2.5× the national rate. New Hampshire, West Virginia and Mississippi follow.

Where Bailey is used more than average5 states use the name Bailey more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: 2.0× the national rateMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: 2.5× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: 2.3× the national rateWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: 2.0× the national rateMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: 2.5× the national rateHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Bailey is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Hawaii 92 2.5×
New Hampshire 117 2.5×
West Virginia 168 2.3×
Mississippi 268 2.0×
Maine 87 2.0×

Is Bailey a boy's or a girl's name?

84% girls16% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Across the whole record, 83.6% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Bailey in England and Wales

ONS recorded 230 births named Bailey in 2025, ranking it #260.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Bailey comes from

See bailey (“outer castle wall”)

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Bailey

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Bailey Jay American pornographic actress 1988 31
Bailey Wright Australian association football player 1992 29
Bailey Peacock-Farrell Northern Irish association football player 1996 22
Bailey Olter President of Federated States of Micronesia 1932–1999 21
Bailey Chase American actor 1972 17
Bailey Howell American basketball player 1937 15
Bailey Bass American actress 2003 13
Bailey De Young actress 1989 13
Photo credits (6)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 2,539 in 1994 to 4,498 in 1995 — 1.8 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Bailey

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Bailey was in 2025.

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