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Girl's name · #209 in the US (2025) · Timeless
92% girls · 8% boys — Bailey is also given to boys: 138 in 2025, about 1 in 13 in recent years. Bailey →
Bailey first appeared in 1916, vanished from the records entirely for 30 years, and since returning in 1956 has climbed back to #209. About 111,000 girls have carried it in all.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 48 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#197 in New Zealand (2025) · #439 in Scotland (2025) · #623 in Ireland (2025) · #707 in England & Wales (2025) · #845 in Netherlands (2025) · #885 in Sweden (2025) · #1,911 in Switzerland (2025) · #356 in Canada (2024).
It is also an American family name — about 278,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 201 notable people named Bailey:
Sports figures appear 2.78× more often than among typical names — e.g. Bailey Lear, American athlete.
Together with its spelling variants Baylee (#1008) and Bailee (#1069), Bailey would rank around #157 with about 1,900 births last year — the newborns split about 75/13/12 across Bailey, Baylee, and Bailee.
Similar names: Baylee · Katherine · Baila · Kaylee · Sydney · Kylie
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