boys:
922 births since 1882
#3669 (20th percentile)
overall:
922 births since 1882
#6817 (12th percentile)
The name Bayard is the #6,817 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 922 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 11.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,669 (19.9% percentile) for all time with 922 births since 1882.
Bayard first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for boys in 1882). Birth data for Bayard is available in 80 out of the 139 years between 1882 and 2020. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Bayard reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #504) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 43 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bayard".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Bayard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Bayard is pronounced as BAY-erd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAI-erd, at 38.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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