Bailee
Bailee was given to 227 girls in 2025, #1,069 among girls’ names; 16,483 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,300 Americans named Bailee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bailee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bailee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bailee is “a female given name.”
Variant of Bailey.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bailee?
#1,069 among girls’ names, 2025
Bailee fell from #552 in 2015 to #1,069 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.31 to 0.14 per 1,000.
682 babies in 2000, the peak
Bailee peaked in 2000, when 682 babies were given it (658 girls, #429 among girls’ names). The 233 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 227 | #1,069 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 261 | #991 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 283 | #936 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 313 | #890 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 340 | #817 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 320 | #850 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 416 | #694 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 477 | #627 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 521 | #581 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 521 | #588 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 562 | #552 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 551 | #559 | 0.31 |
| 2013 | 575 | #517 | 0.33 |
| 2012 | 612 | #501 | 0.35 |
| 2011 | 529 | #555 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 553 | #527 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 540 | #566 | 0.29 |
| 2008 | 598 | #517 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 632 | #506 | 0.33 |
| 2006 | 447 | #644 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 427 | #649 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 442 | #620 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 437 | #613 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 521 | #528 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 591 | #470 | 0.33 |
| 2000 | 658 | #429 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 641 | #431 | 0.36 |
| 1998 | 640 | #414 | 0.36 |
| 1997 | 643 | #407 | 0.37 |
| 1996 | 503 | #479 | 0.29 |
| 1995 | 395 | #582 | 0.22 |
| 1994 | 217 | #885 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 184 | #1,004 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 152 | #1,156 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 132 | #1,268 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 114 | #1,381 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,663 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,910 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,494 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,847 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,642 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,496 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,415 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,537 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bailee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,483 Americans recorded as Bailee, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 227 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bailee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bailee, and how old are they?
16,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,483 Americans ever recorded as Bailee. The median Bailee alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 12,886 people named Bailee (12,669 women and girls, 217 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,676 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,370 |
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 Bailee born?
The states with the most babies named Bailee are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #1,042 | 1.1× |
| California | 16 | #1,423 | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 16 | #274 | 2.4× |
| Ohio | 12 | #752 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 11 | #863 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 10 | #744 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #989 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 8 | #733 | 1.2× |
| Alabama | 8 | #583 | 1.7× |
| New York | 8 | #1,548 | 0.3× |
Where Bailee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bailee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1982 it was given 2.7 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 Bailee 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 184,478 babies since 1880, Bailee is the third most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 233 of their 2,288 babies (10%), 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 Bailee
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 Bailee and names like it
- Compare Bailee and BaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBailee peaked in 2000.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bailee since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Bailee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bailee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.