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Bailey-Rae

Gender
Girl
Say it
BAY-lee-RAY
Origin
English

Bailey-Rae is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “bailiff; castle wall + ewe”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Bailey-Rae mean?

English: Bailey + Rae

“bailiff; castle wall + ewe”

Joins Bailey (English, “bailiff; castle wall”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).

Meanings borrowed from Bailey and Rae.

Is Bailey-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?

Bailey-Rae is a girls' name.

How popular is Bailey-Rae in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2012, with 13 girls.

Half of all the girls named Bailey-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2017, 75% of the babies named Bailey-Rae in the UK were girls.

2006Busiest: 13 in 20122022
Bailey-Rae in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20223#5,885
20210–
20203#5,734
20193#5,804
20186#3,702
20179#2,864
20166#3,788
20156#3,777
20149#2,809
20133#6,003
201213#2,210
20113#6,007
20108#2,992
20094#4,795
20085#4,065
20076#3,396
20066#3,280

Names like Bailey-Rae

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Bailey-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bailey-rae, updated 20 October 2026.