Bailee — #991 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Bailee

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,012 babies named Bailee between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bailee currently holds the #991 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 658 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bailee performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,317 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Bailee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,692 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Bailee in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bailee 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 16,012 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.