Baylor — #365 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Baylor

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,183 babies named Baylor between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Baylor currently holds the #365 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 903 babies received it in a single year. Baylor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,314 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Baylor performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 3,941 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Baylor shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 681 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Baylor in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Baylor 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 8,183 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.