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Baley

Mostly girls · BAY-lee · English

Baley is a name of English origin, meaning “bailiff”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Baley mean?

English: variant of Bailey, from Old French baillif

“bailiff”

Variant of Bailey, an English surname for a bailiff, meaning a steward or official, from Old French.

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BAY-lee

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

In recent years, Baley has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls.

How popular is Baley in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.

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

In 2000, 60% of the babies named Baley in the US were girls.

1986Busiest: 22 in 20022019
Baley in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20196#13,793
20180–
20170–
20160–
20158#11,830
20147#13,063
20136#14,577
20126#14,956
20116#14,816
20107#13,442
20098#12,423
200815#8,105
20076#15,485
200611#9,897
200510#10,123
200411#9,259
200316#6,880
200222#5,250
20016#13,514
200018#5,932
199920#5,213
199819#5,359
199721#4,815
199616#5,766
199517#5,434
199413#6,666
199313#6,615
199210#8,057
19917#10,263
19906#11,403
19897#9,675
19889#7,686
19870–
19866#9,540

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