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Bayli

Gender
Girl
Say it
BAY-lee
Origin
English

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

What does Bayli mean?

English: spelling of Baylee, 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 Baylee. More on Wiktionary.

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

Bayli is a girls' name.

How popular is Bayli in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1997, with 87 girls. It first appears in the records in 1987.

Half of all the girls named Bayli in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1987Busiest: 87 in 19972024
Bayli in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20245#15,288
20237#12,192
20227#12,237
20219#10,287
202010#9,541
201911#9,106
201811#9,146
201713#8,295
201611#9,408
201518#6,719
201423#5,623
201325#5,315
201228#4,955
201130#4,680
201034#4,305
200939#3,943
200843#3,709
200747#3,481
200626#5,232
200524#5,261
200422#5,551
200342#3,408
200240#3,390
200146#3,042
200063#2,422
199960#2,421
199860#2,335
199787#1,747
199679#1,838
199537#3,082
199420#4,840
199313#6,615
199228#3,767
199111#7,423
199017#5,281
198910#7,443
19888#8,386
19875#11,320

Names like Bayli

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

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