Bailie
Bailie was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,538 among girls’ names; 1,654 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Bailie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bailie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bailie?
#9,538 among girls’ names, 2025
Bailie fell from #8,532 in 2015 to #9,538 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 6.2 per million.
121 babies in 1997, the peak
Bailie peaked in 1997, when 121 girls were given it, #1,393 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,538 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,268 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,701 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,783 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,052 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,653 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,520 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,686 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,820 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,470 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,532 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,019 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,517 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,729 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,386 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,878 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,115 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,722 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,793 | 33.8 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,005 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,742 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,267 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,356 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,018 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,071 | 44.4 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,882 | 49.6 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,441 | 68.2 |
| 1998 | 114 | #1,494 | 64.5 |
| 1997 | 121 | #1,393 | 69.5 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,465 | 63.9 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,834 | 43.8 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,378 | 30.2 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,531 | 27.1 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,030 | 36.3 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,161 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,344 | 27.9 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,677 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,662 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,832 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,203 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,621 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,577 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bailie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bailie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bailie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bailie, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,654 Americans ever recorded as Bailie. The median Bailie alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,457 people named Bailie (1,429 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,583 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 515 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 964 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 151 |
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).
How common is the spelling Bailie?
Bailie is a less common spelling of Bailey: SSA has recorded 1,654 Bailie and 132,544 Bailey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 182,891 babies since 1880, Bailie is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 2,257 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Bailie
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 Bailie and names like it
- Compare Bailie and BaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBailie peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bailie since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Bailie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bailie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.