girls:
21.2k births since 1980
#996 (83rd percentile)
boys:
654 births since 1995
#3933 (14th percentile)
overall:
21.9k births since 1980
#1723 (78th percentile)
The name Baylee is the #1,723 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,887 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 77.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #996 (82.6% percentile) for all time with 21,233 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #3,933 (14.2% percentile) for all time with 654 births since 1995.
Baylee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for girls and 1995 for boys).
The name Baylee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Baylee reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 67.1% percentile (ranked #285) with 507 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 507 births per million (ranked 67.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Baylee ranks #659 for girls (30.4% percentile) with 172 births per million, which is 33.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Baylee reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #724) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 37 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Baylee".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Baylee is pronounced as BAY-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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