Baylor
Baylor is a unisex name: 407 girls and 822 boys were given it in 2025 (#694 among girls’ names and #386 among boys’, #533 among all names counting both); 12,731 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,600 Americans named Baylor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baylor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Baylor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Baylor is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Baylor?
#386 among boys’ names, 2025
Baylor rose from #811 in 2015 to #386 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.15 to 0.48 per 1,000.
1,253 babies in 2024, the peak
Baylor peaked in 2024, when 1,253 babies were given it (905 boys, #365 among boys’ names). The 1,229 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 98% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 407 | #694 | 822 | #386 |
| 2024 | 348 | #807 | 905 | #365 |
| 2023 | 374 | #753 | 815 | #391 |
| 2022 | 345 | #813 | 816 | #391 |
| 2021 | 302 | #896 | 761 | #410 |
| 2020 | 244 | #1,027 | 648 | #458 |
| 2019 | 202 | #1,176 | 474 | #587 |
| 2018 | 185 | #1,251 | 352 | #689 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,342 | 310 | #758 |
| 2016 | 209 | #1,193 | 341 | #717 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 215 | #1,171 | 280 | #811 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,677 | 218 | #965 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,286 | 183 | #1,047 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,267 | 195 | #1,011 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,274 | 143 | #1,221 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,119 | 161 | #1,149 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,258 | 138 | #1,272 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,470 | 140 | #1,240 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,579 | 130 | #1,317 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,409 | 115 | #1,387 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,288 | 114 | #1,323 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,589 | 118 | #1,270 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,950 | 127 | #1,172 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,170 | 90 | #1,430 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,361 | 82 | #1,478 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,968 | 108 | #1,232 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,223 | 75 | #1,501 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,418 | 64 | #1,619 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,331 | 53 | #1,791 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,221 | 54 | #1,723 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,667 | 39 | #2,102 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,679 | 27 | #2,687 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 26 | #2,701 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 15 | #3,928 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 11 | #4,782 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,258 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,279 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,384 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #5,995 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,611 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,566 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #3,909 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 9 | #3,034 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 6 | #3,904 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,231 |
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 Baylor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 12,731 Americans recorded as Baylor, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Baylor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baylor, and how old are they?
12,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,731 Americans ever recorded as Baylor. The median Baylor alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 5,752 people named Baylor (1,661 women and girls, 4,091 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,089 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 216 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,100 |
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 Baylor born?
The states with the most babies named Baylor are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 86 | #615 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 74 | #242 | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 63 | #105 | 3.1× |
| Ohio | 63 | #307 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 60 | #217 | 2.4× |
| Missouri | 60 | #193 | 1.8× |
| Louisiana | 57 | #144 | 3.0× |
| North Carolina | 50 | #384 | 0.9× |
| Arkansas | 50 | #121 | 2.6× |
| Indiana | 46 | #240 | 1.1× |
Where Baylor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baylor is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1918 it was given 3.2 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 boys’ 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 Baylor 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,417 babies since 1880, Baylor is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,229 of their 1,278 babies (96%), again the 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 Baylor
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 Baylor and names like it
- Compare Baylor and BaylerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBaylor peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baylor since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Baylor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Baylor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.