Baylei
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- BAY-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Baylei is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “bailiff”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Baylei mean?
English: variant of the surname Bailey
“bailiff”
From the English surname Bailey, originally for a bailiff or for someone living by a castle bailey.
Is Baylei a girl's or a boy's name?
Baylei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Baylei in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 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, 6 girls in the US were named Baylei, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 36 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Baylei in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,144 girls in the US were given Baylei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #166, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Baylei in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,920 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 27 | #4,979 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,119 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,061 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,535 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,700 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,278 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
Names like Baylei
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Blakely, Briar, Brynlee, Londyn, Kinsley, Harper, Riley, Ellie, Presley, Brooklyn, Berkley, Parker
Other spellings of Baylei
Bailey, Baylee, Bailee, Bayleigh, Baileigh, Bayley, Baylie, Baleigh, Bailie, Baily, Baeleigh
Names related to Baylei
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter
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, “Baylei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/baylei, updated 20 October 2026.