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Baylie

Gender
Girl
Say it
BAY-lee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#4,757 for girls

Baylie is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “bailiff”. In 2025 it ranked 4,757th for girls in the US (28 babies).

What does Baylie mean?

English: spelling of Bailey, an English surname

“bailiff”

Bailey was an occupational surname for a bailiff, an officer who managed land or enforced the law.

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

Baylie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 28 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Baylie in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 12 girls.

Half of all the girls named Baylie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2003, 60% of the babies named Baylie in the UK were girls.

1999Busiest: 12 in 20072024
Baylie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20243#5,966
20231#7,582
20220–
20211#7,491
20200–
20193#5,804
20184#4,914
20175#4,250
20161#7,664
20154#4,951
20148#3,031
20137#3,338
20128#3,148
20115#4,244
20103#5,938
20097#3,201
20080–
200712#2,083
20064#4,357
20053#4,976
20044#3,916
20036#2,877
20024#3,556
20014#3,427
20008#2,097
19993#4,041

How popular is Baylie in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,757th among girls
Babies in 2025
28 about 1 in 57,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 46% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 28 girls in the US were named Baylie, making it the 4,757th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,077th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 234 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.

2025 had more girls named Baylie than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Baylie in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,144 girls in the US were given Baylie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #166, up from #4,757 for this spelling alone.

1984Busiest: 234 in 20072025
Baylie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202528#4,757
202415#7,247
202318#6,404
202211#9,050
202123#5,394
202034#4,077
201942#3,610
201838#3,852
201758#2,873
201670#2,539
201570#2,555
201491#2,114
201384#2,211
2012138#1,575
2011112#1,804
2010120#1,738
2009124#1,756
2008136#1,653
2007234#1,105
2006153#1,454
2005122#1,638
2004117#1,653
2003129#1,508
2002124#1,519
2001143#1,339
2000197#1,051
1999167#1,162
1998180#1,077
1997197#989
1996117#1,410
1995121#1,352
199469#2,021
199342#2,820
199240#2,915
199123#4,323
199023#4,225
198920#4,516
198815#5,316
19877#8,773
19868#7,745
19856#9,304
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, “Baylie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/baylie, updated 20 October 2026.