Bailey

girls:

107.7k births since 1916

#349 (94th percentile)

boys:

21.4k births since 1880

#782 (83rd percentile)

overall:

129.1k births since 1880

#576 (93rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bailey".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
107,678
Peak Births
5,197
Peak Year
1998
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
93.2%
Current Percentile
82.5%
Peak Rank
#60
Current Rank
#167
Female statistics
Total Births
21,448
Peak Births
2,296
Peak Year
1997
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
81.0%
Current Percentile
16.0%
Peak Rank
#151
Current Rank
#765
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Bailey

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bailey. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Bailey is pronounced as BAY-lee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Bailey. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Bailey, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BA-lee (2 syllables)
7 names 2.6k births
B AE1 L IY0
BAY-lee-uh (3 syllables)
2 names 684 births
B EY1 L IY0 AH0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B EY1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.