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Bailey
Pronounced /ˈbeɪli/
Rank in 2024
#1,271
Born in 2024
155
Peak year
1997 · #151
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,644 in 2024 (#182)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 155 boys were named Bailey, about 1 in every 11,067.
- It peaked in 1997 with 2,296 babies, ranked #151.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 21,603 boys have been named Bailey since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Bailey per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 697 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 632 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 499 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 302 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,632 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 14,119 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,509 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
(English topographic surname): See bailey (“outer castle wall”)
- (countable) A unisex given name
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- (chiefly US) A female given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈbeɪli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Bailey, CC BY-SA 4.0.