Baily
Baily was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,088 among girls’ names; 1,824 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Baily and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baily by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Baily?
#11,088 among girls’ names, 2025
Baily fell from #7,021 in 2015 to #11,088 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 5.0 per million.
149 babies in 1997, the peak
Baily peaked in 1997, when 149 babies were given it (94 girls, #1,670 among girls’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,088 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,648 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,121 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,142 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,053 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,342 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,598 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,221 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,848 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,007 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,021 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,491 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,043 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,927 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,588 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,364 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,698 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,654 | 7 | #9,962 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,254 | 6 | #11,063 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,742 | 11 | #6,954 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,317 | 9 | #7,684 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,337 | 17 | #4,812 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,639 | 11 | #6,295 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,101 | 31 | #2,947 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,460 | 35 | #2,680 |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,141 | 53 | #1,940 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,807 | 58 | #1,750 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,816 | 53 | #1,846 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,670 | 55 | #1,751 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,424 | 45 | #1,957 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,365 | 21 | #3,196 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,451 | 5 | #8,903 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,992 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,144 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,067 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,717 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,682 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,898 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,948 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,781 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,503 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,236 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Baily a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,824 Americans recorded as Baily, 77% are girls and 23% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Baily: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baily, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,824 Americans ever recorded as Baily. The median Baily alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,146 people named Baily (1,624 women and girls, 522 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,741 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 411 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 168 |
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 Baily?
Baily is a less common spelling of Bailey: SSA has recorded 1,824 Baily and 132,544 Bailey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 160,712 babies since 1880, Baily is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 2,063 babies (<1%), the seventh 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.
More about Baily and names like it
- Compare Baily and BaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBaily peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baily since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Baily.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Baily alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.