Baylee
Baylee was given to 248 girls in 2025, #1,008 among girls’ names; 22,403 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,200 Americans named Baylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Baylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Baylee is “a female given name.”
Variant of Bailey, possibly influenced by Lee.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Baylee?
#1,008 among girls’ names, 2025
Baylee fell from #405 in 2015 to #1,008 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.44 to 0.15 per 1,000.
1,041 babies in 1997, the peak
Baylee peaked in 1997, when 1,041 babies were given it (968 girls, #296 among girls’ names). The 248 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #1,008 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 251 | #1,014 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 303 | #887 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 317 | #877 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 371 | #768 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 349 | #780 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 435 | #666 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 539 | #572 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 586 | #528 | 0.34 |
| 2016 | 633 | #492 | 0.36 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 791 | #405 | 0.44 |
| 2014 | 901 | #362 | 0.50 |
| 2013 | 938 | #346 | 0.53 |
| 2012 | 931 | #338 | 0.53 |
| 2011 | 777 | #407 | 0.44 |
| 2010 | 802 | #402 | 0.45 |
| 2009 | 861 | #378 | 0.47 |
| 2008 | 772 | #417 | 0.41 |
| 2007 | 829 | #394 | 0.43 |
| 2006 | 670 | #470 | 0.35 |
| 2005 | 606 | #500 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 591 | #498 | 0.32 |
| 2003 | 695 | #433 | 0.38 |
| 2002 | 717 | #406 | 0.40 |
| 2001 | 792 | #375 | 0.44 |
| 2000 | 905 | #340 | 0.50 |
| 1999 | 844 | #354 | 0.48 |
| 1998 | 944 | #317 | 0.53 |
| 1997 | 968 | #296 | 0.56 |
| 1996 | 853 | #331 | 0.49 |
| 1995 | 696 | #380 | 0.40 |
| 1994 | 173 | #1,051 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 151 | #1,162 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 115 | #1,415 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,653 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,666 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,276 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,184 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,259 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,138 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,100 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,240 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,124 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,403 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,223 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,195 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Baylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,403 Americans recorded as Baylee, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 248 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 Baylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baylee, and how old are they?
22,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 22,403 Americans ever recorded as Baylee. The median Baylee alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 18,060 people named Baylee (17,513 women and girls, 547 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,448 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,690 |
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 Baylee born?
The states with the most babies named Baylee are Texas, Ohio and California, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 26 | #1,065 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 21 | #506 | 1.3× |
| California | 15 | #1,506 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,007 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #824 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #913 | 0.8× |
| New York | 10 | #1,330 | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #822 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,095 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 8 | #874 | 0.8× |
Where Baylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baylee is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1980 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 Baylee 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 181,373 babies since 1880, Baylee is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 248 of their 2,185 babies (11%), 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 Baylee
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 Baylee and names like it
- Compare Baylee and BaileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBaylee peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baylee since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Baylee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Baylee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.