Bae — unisex name

What the Data Says About Bae

The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Bae between 2012 and 2021, spanning 10 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bae currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Bae is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2013.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bae performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 23 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Bae shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bae in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 28 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.