Baley — unisex name

What the Data Says About Baley

The Social Security Administration has registered 333 babies named Baley between 1986 and 2019, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Baley currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Baley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 103 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Baley performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 142 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Baley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Baley in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Baley 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 333 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.