girls:
1.4k births since 1984
#4343 (24th percentile)
boys:
417 births since 1994
#4169 (9th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1984
#5953 (23rd percentile)
The name Baily is the #5,953 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,801 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 23.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,343 (24.0% percentile) for all time with 1,384 births since 1984. For boys, it ranks #4,169 (9.0% percentile) for all time with 417 births since 1994.
Baily first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (1984 for girls and 1994 for boys).
The name Baily has been given predominantly to girls, with 76.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Baily were girls.
For girls, Baily reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 10.3% percentile (ranked #774) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 49 births per million (ranked 10.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Baily ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 13.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Baily reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #752) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 28 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Baily".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Baily is pronounced as BAY-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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