Baileigh
Feminine · “bailiff”
Baileigh is a respelling of Bailey, an English occupational surname for a bailiff — the man who ran an estate for its owner and collected what was owed.
How old is the name Baileigh?
Baileigh first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Baileigh alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 2,500 people named Baileigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Baileigh most popular?
Baileigh peaked in 2010, reaching #1658 nationally. Today it ranks #3780, 2,122 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
Where it comes from
From bailli to Baileigh
The story of Baileigh
A bailiff managed an estate and enforced its dues, which made him useful to the lord and unpopular with everyone else — Chaucer's Reeve is a related figure. The surname is common across England. It moved into American given names in the 1980s for both sexes and then heavily for girls, and the spellings multiplied: Bailee, Baylee, Bailey, Baileigh.
Meaning
bailiff, steward
From Old French bailli, an administrator, through Middle English bailli; the word also names the outer wall of a castle, as in the Old Bailey, which was built along London's bailey wall.
How the name formed
- bailli
- Bailey
- Baileigh
Related forms: Bailey · Bailli
Pronouncing Baileigh
BAY-lee
Two syllables, first stressed. Every spelling of the name sounds the same.
Nicknames for Baileigh
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 2010128 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1658reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −22.0%39 in 2025, from 50
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Baileigh in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Bailey in English — spelling variant
- Bailli in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Alabama.
Baileighs among us
people named Baileigh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was named Baileigh
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Baileigh
- #3780
- Baileigh on the 2025 chart
- #843
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Baileigh went to 39 girls in 2025, but Bayleigh is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 117, which makes it the 843rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,937 places above the chart.
- Bayleigh78
- Baileigh39
About 1 girl in 13,737 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 41,212 for Baileigh itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Joycie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Baileigh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Joycie climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Joycie's path sketches the road Baileigh is walking now.
Baileigh sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Baileigh is headed
Baileigh should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Baileigh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Baileigh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled occupational meaning with a real and well-documented office behind it.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Leigh is a complete short form in its own right.
- Bailey is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected constantly.
- The -leigh ending is six letters doing the work of three.
- It is used for both sexes, so forms may guess wrong.
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Frequently asked
- How many Baileighs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Baileigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Baileigh?
- Baileigh is one of 2 recorded spellings. Bayleigh is the more common one — 78 births in 2025 against 39 for Baileigh.
- How popular is the name Baileigh in 2025?
- Baileigh ranks #3780 among US girl names in 2025, with 39 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Baileigh?
- About 1 in every 41,212 US girls born in 2025 was named Baileigh — 39 in all.
- Will my child share the name Baileigh with classmates?
- Baileigh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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