Baylee
Feminine
Baylee is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 21,741 girls against 662 boys since 1880. See Baylee as a boy name
Baylee respells an English occupational surname and the record holds it for sons as well as daughters. The three letters it starts with make one of the most overloaded spellings in English: five separate words, none of them related to any other.
How old is the name Baylee?
Baylee first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Baylee alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 21,500 people named Baylee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Baylee most popular?
Baylee peaked in 1997, reaching #296 nationally. Today it ranks #1008, 712 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Baylee
English has five words spelled bay and no two of them are related. A bay of the sea is from Old French, probably from a Latin word about an opening. A bay tree is from a completely different French word, for a berry, which is why bay leaves and laurel are the same thing. A bay horse is reddish-brown, from Latin badius. A bay window is an architectural compartment, from the same root as the sea bay by a different route. And a dog gives tongue at bay, from Old French abaier, which is imitative — the sound a hound makes — and that is where being at bay and holding something at bay both come from: the quarry cornered and the dogs barking. Dictionaries list all five separately and nobody confuses them.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The surname behind it is usually occupational, from the office of a bailiff, though a topographical origin is also proposed. This spelling respells it and there is no evidence any family had the office in mind.
Pronouncing Baylee
BAY-lee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The respelling is audible nowhere; it is the ending that changes and it says exactly what the standard one says.
Nicknames for Baylee
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
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 1997968 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #296reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- −1.2%248 in 2025, from 251
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.
Baylee in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Baylees among us
people named Baylee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 6,481 born in 2025 was named Baylee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Baylee
- #1008
- Baylee on the 2025 chart
- #533
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Baylee went to 248 girls in 2025, but Bailee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 475, which makes it the 533rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 475 places above the chart.
- Baylee248
- Bailee227
About 1 girl in 3,384 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 6,481 for Baylee 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 Earline test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Baylee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Earline climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Earline's path sketches the road Baylee is walking now.
Baylee 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 Baylee is headed
Baylee is easing off slowly — about 19% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
High 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.
Baylee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Baylee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves detach as short forms and each is a standing name.
- The sound is entirely familiar, so nobody has to be taught it.
- Two syllables with front stress is easy and quick.
- Bailey, Bailee and Baileigh are all recorded and will be written for it.
- The spelling has to be given aloud every time.
- The record holds it for sons as well, so it signals nothing about sex.
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Frequently asked
- How many Baylees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 21,500 people named Baylee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Baylee?
- Baylee is the most-used spelling in US records — 248 of the 475 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Bailee.
- How popular is the name Baylee in 2025?
- Baylee ranks #1008 among US girl names in 2025, with 248 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Baylee?
- About 1 in every 6,481 US girls born in 2025 was named Baylee — 248 in all.
- Will my child share the name Baylee with classmates?
- Baylee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Baylee
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