girls:
15.7k births since 1982
#1204 (79th percentile)
boys:
227 births since 1995
#4359 (5th percentile)
overall:
16k births since 1982
#2054 (73rd percentile)
The name Bailee is the #2,054 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,976 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 73.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,204 (78.9% percentile) for all time with 15,749 births since 1982. For boys, it ranks #4,359 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 227 births since 1995.
Bailee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for girls and 1995 for boys).
The name Bailee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bailee reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 56.4% percentile (ranked #377) with 337 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 337 births per million (ranked 56.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bailee ranks #676 for girls (28.6% percentile) with 161 births per million, which is 47.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bailee reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #773) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bailee".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Bailee", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 33 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Bailey" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Bailey..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bailee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.4% confident that Bailee is pronounced as BAY-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAI-lee, at 13.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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