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Baily

Gender
Boy
Say it
BAY-lee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Baily is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “bailiff”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Baily mean?

English: variant of Bailey, an English surname

“bailiff”

Variant of Bailey, a surname for a bailiff or for someone living by a castle's outer wall.

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

Baily is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Baily in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 13 boys.

Half of all the boys named Baily in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2004, 25% of the babies named Baily in the UK were girls.

1997Busiest: 13 in 20062014
Baily in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20143#4,829
20131#6,198
20120–
20113#4,837
20105#3,478
200910#2,084
20084#3,836
200711#1,848
200613#1,558
20057#2,292
20049#1,831
20039#1,723
20024#2,751
20017#1,833
200010#1,405
19997#1,749
19985#2,170
19975#2,109

How popular is Baily in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,913th among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Baily, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1997, with 94 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.

2025 had fewer girls named Baily than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Baily in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,144 girls in the US were given Baily or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #166, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.

In 2008, 86% of the babies named Baily in the US were girls.

1984Busiest: 94 in 19972025
Baily in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
202414#7,590
202313#8,050
202211#9,050
202111#8,973
20207#12,137
20199#10,467
201813#8,142
201717#6,804
20169#10,855
201517#6,974
201419#6,449
201321#6,014
201239#3,914
201131#4,567
201048#3,359
200931#4,676
200844#3,644
200752#3,247
200641#3,733
200546#3,313
200445#3,329
200360#2,635
200246#3,099
200163#2,457
200075#2,137
199988#1,801
199885#1,816
199794#1,669
199653#2,420
199555#2,362
199432#3,443
199339#2,985
199236#3,139
199125#4,053
199028#3,709
198919#4,664
198823#3,888
198712#5,918
198612#5,754
198510#6,455
19846#9,139

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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, “Baily: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/baily, updated 20 October 2026.