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Bayle

Gender
Girl
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BAYL
Origin
English

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

What does Bayle 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.

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

Bayle is a girls' name.

How popular is Bayle in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Bayle in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 20 in 20062013
Bayle in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20137#13,145
20120–
20115#16,756
20106#14,953
20097#13,698
200810#10,802
200711#10,125
200620#6,354
200511#9,447
200416#7,072
200314#7,575
20027#12,181
20019#10,095
20007#11,794
199910#8,798
199818#5,579
199712#7,278
199614#6,387
199512#7,036
19945#13,423
19937#10,581
19920–
19915#13,139
19908#9,241

Names like Bayle

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Bayle: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bayle, updated 20 October 2026.