Bailea — girls' name
227 babies named Bailea in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Bailea was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Bailea in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Bailea
The Social Security Administration has registered 227 babies named Bailea between 1989 and 2016, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bailea currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Bailea performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 96 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Bailea shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bailea in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Bailea 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 227 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.
Bailea at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Bailea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1989
- Peak year (1997)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
227 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 22 births in a single year.
Bailea by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 96 births that decade — 42% of Bailea's all-time total
Bailea decade highlights
- Peak decade 96 births
- Runner-up 85 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Bailea's strongest decade
96 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Bailea by state
Where Bailea concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 2.2% |
5 of 227 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.