Girls' name · peaked in 1997
Bailee name popularity since 1925
16,483 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Bailee (98.5% girls, 1.5% boys). Half of them were born in 2008 or earlier, so the typical Bailee is about 18 years old in 2026. Bailee peaked in 1997 as the #407 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 16,483
- Named Bailee, 1925–2025
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #1,069 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 98.5% girls
- 16,240 girls · 243 boys
- Most popular in
- Utah
- 4.87× its national share
Peak year is the year Bailee made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Bailee births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year by count was 2000. Measured as a share of all babies, Bailee peaked in 1997.
- Fastest rise: Between 1992 and 1997, Bailee became 4.5× more common, from 1 in 12,100 baby girls to 1 in 2,710.
- Steepest fall: Between 2015 and 2020, its share of baby girls fell by 37%, from 1 in 3,180 to 1 in 5,050.
Shaded on the chart. Both compare Bailee's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Bailee.
Decade by decade
Babies named Bailee in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1930s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1940s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1950s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1960s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1970s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1980s | 265 | 0 | #4,644 |
| 1990s | 3,621 | 77 | #582 |
| 2000s | 5,293 | 116 | #649 |
| 2010s | 5,317 | 39 | #552 |
| 2020–25 | 1,744 | 11 | #1,069 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.
Generation fingerprint
55.2% of babies named Bailee from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:
Where Bailee is most popular
The index compares Bailee's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Bailee.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Utah | 4.87× | 617 |
| Louisiana | 2.38× | 634 |
| Tennessee | 1.88× | 589 |
| Oklahoma | 1.85× | 359 |
| Georgia | 1.76× | 724 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Bailee and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Bailee (this page) | 16,240 | 1997 |
| Bailey | 110,800 | 1998 |
| Baylee | 21,741 | 1997 |
| Bailie | 1,654 | 1997 |
| Baily | 1,407 | 1997 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Bailee's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Bailee.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Bailee (1997).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data