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Bailie

Gender
Girl
Say it
BAY-lee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#9,454 for girls

Bailie is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “bailiff”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

What does Bailie mean?

English: spelling of Bailee, itself a spelling of Bailey, an English occupational surname

“bailiff”

A spelling of Bailey, from the surname for a bailiff, a steward or officer of the law.

Meaning borrowed from Bailee. More on Wiktionary.

Is Bailie a girl's or a boy's name?

Bailie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Bailie in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 13 girls.

Half of all the girls named Bailie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2015. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

In 2018, 64% of the babies named Bailie in the UK were girls.

1996Busiest: 13 in 20072024
Bailie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20243#5,966
20230–
20221#7,487
20217#3,338
20205#4,110
20198#3,018
20187#3,344
20173#5,998
20160–
20158#3,114
20146#3,702
20134#4,953
20125#4,390
20115#4,244
20106#3,715
20097#3,201
20083#5,772
200713#1,964
20065#3,724
20052#6,264
20047#2,669
20033#4,560
20028#2,231
20017#2,341
20006#2,554
19995#2,912
19986#2,535
19976#2,552
19964#3,289

How popular is Bailie in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Bailie, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 1997, with 121 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.

Half of all the girls named Bailie in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,144 girls in the US were given Bailie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #166, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.

1984Busiest: 121 in 19972025
Bailie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
20248#11,117
20236#13,456
202210#9,674
202111#8,973
202010#9,541
20198#11,350
20189#10,540
20179#10,685
201613#8,390
201513#8,443
201421#5,991
201324#5,484
201223#5,707
201125#5,356
201029#4,859
200928#5,096
200867#2,718
200765#2,787
200637#3,991
200539#3,726
200446#3,261
200343#3,343
200248#3,010
200180#2,071
200090#1,881
1999121#1,440
1998114#1,491
1997121#1,393
1996112#1,464
199577#1,832
199454#2,376
199349#2,528
199267#2,028
199135#3,153
199053#2,340
198927#3,667
198818#4,648
198710#6,783
198611#6,153
19858#7,560
19845#10,417

Names like Bailie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Bailie

Names related to Bailie

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Sources

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

To cite this page: Nameling, “Bailie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bailie, updated 20 October 2026.