Baileigh
Baileigh was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,786 among girls’ names; 2,545 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Baileigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baileigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Baileigh?
#3,786 among girls’ names, 2025
Baileigh fell from #2,154 in 2015 to #3,786 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 49.3 to 24.3 per million.
128 babies in 2010, the peak
Baileigh peaked in 2010, when 128 girls were given it, #1,659 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,786 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,180 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,858 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,710 | 25.0 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,725 | 38.4 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,530 | 42.1 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,932 | 33.4 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,341 | 45.9 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,202 | 49.8 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,132 | 51.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #2,154 | 49.3 |
| 2014 | 99 | #1,999 | 55.4 |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,022 | 54.7 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,100 | 51.7 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,781 | 64.8 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,659 | 72.0 |
| 2009 | 121 | #1,785 | 65.9 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,891 | 59.2 |
| 2007 | 115 | #1,839 | 59.8 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,761 | 33.7 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,700 | 33.6 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,286 | 41.4 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,347 | 38.9 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,266 | 40.1 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,885 | 51.1 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,054 | 44.1 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,892 | 46.8 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,957 | 43.6 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,199 | 35.6 |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,252 | 33.7 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,842 | 23.9 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,304 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,840 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,562 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,284 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,150 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,996 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,489 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Baileigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Baileigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Baileigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baileigh, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,545 Americans ever recorded as Baileigh. The median Baileigh alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,880 people named Baileigh (1,870 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 207 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 908 |
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 Baileigh born?
The states with the most babies named Baileigh are Georgia, Texas and Ohio, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,231 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,364 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,485 | 0.5× |
Where Baileigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baileigh is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1988 it was given 3.0 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 Baileigh 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,780 babies since 1880, Baileigh is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 135 babies (29%), again the second 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 Baileigh
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 Baileigh and names like it
- Compare Baileigh and BayleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBaileigh peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baileigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Baileigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Baileigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.