Baila
Baila was given to 146 girls in 2025, #1,467 among girls’ names; 3,416 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,370 Americans named Baila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Baila?
#1,467 among girls’ names, 2025
Baila rose from #1,706 in 2015 to #1,467 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 69.5 to 90.8 per million.
157 babies in 2024, the peak
Baila peaked in 2024, when 157 girls were given it, #1,421 among girls’ names. The 146 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146 | #1,467 | 90.8 |
| 2024 | 157 | #1,421 | 96.9 |
| 2023 | 145 | #1,494 | 90.4 |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,602 | 80.5 |
| 2021 | 146 | #1,469 | 89.0 |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,572 | 82.9 |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,586 | 79.8 |
| 2018 | 137 | #1,577 | 80.5 |
| 2017 | 120 | #1,754 | 69.5 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,760 | 66.6 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 124 | #1,706 | 69.5 |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,100 | 51.5 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,867 | 61.5 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,930 | 57.9 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,194 | 48.9 |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,029 | 55.1 |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,937 | 58.8 |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,220 | 47.1 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,296 | 43.7 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,670 | 35.2 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,358 | 40.6 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,370 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,204 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,143 | 43.4 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,540 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,858 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,527 | 31.6 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,462 | 31.7 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,824 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,316 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,093 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,621 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,291 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,920 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,725 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,437 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,526 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,703 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,865 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,062 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,388 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,756 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,489 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,181 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,984 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,623 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,344 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,240 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,240 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,086 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,230 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,610 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,343 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,430 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,558 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,680 | 4.3 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,747 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,712 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,396 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Baila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Baila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Baila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baila, and how old are they?
3,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,416 Americans ever recorded as Baila. The median Baila alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,246 people named Baila (2,226 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,559 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 387 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,680 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Baila born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 97 | #167 | 11.4× |
| New Jersey | 38 | #214 | 5.7× |
Where Baila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baila is most over-represented in New York: since 1955 it was given 11.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Baila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 158,518 babies since 1880, Baila is the third most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 146 of their 2,037 babies (7.2%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Baila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Baila and names like it
- Compare Baila and BaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBaila peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baila since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Baila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Baila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.