Girls' name · peaked in 1997
Baylee name popularity since 1925
22,403 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Baylee (97.0% girls, 3.0% boys). Half of them were born in 2007 or earlier, so the typical Baylee is about 19 years old in 2026. Baylee peaked in 1997 as the #296 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 22,403
- Named Baylee, 1925–2025
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #1,008 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 97.0% girls
- 21,741 girls · 662 boys
- Most popular in
- Utah
- 4.37× its national share
Peak year is the year Baylee 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.
Baylee births per year, 1925–2025
1997 was the biggest year for Baylee both by count and as a share of all babies.
- Fastest rise: Between 1992 and 1997, Baylee became 8.9× more common, from 1 in 16,000 baby girls to 1 in 1,800.
- Steepest fall: Between 2015 and 2020, its share of baby girls fell by 51%, from 1 in 2,260 to 1 in 4,630.
Shaded on the chart. Both compare Baylee's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Baylee.
Decade by decade
Babies named Baylee 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 | 209 | 0 | #5,102 |
| 1990s | 4,922 | 267 | #380 |
| 2000s | 7,438 | 289 | #500 |
| 2010s | 7,333 | 86 | #405 |
| 2020–25 | 1,839 | 20 | #1,008 |
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
59.0% of babies named Baylee from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:
Where Baylee is most popular
The index compares Baylee'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 Baylee.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Utah | 4.37× | 770 |
| Oklahoma | 3.00× | 809 |
| Tennessee | 2.00× | 872 |
| West Virginia | 1.95× | 355 |
| Arkansas | 1.93× | 410 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Baylee 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baylee (this page) | 21,741 | 1997 |
| Bailee | 16,240 | 1997 |
| Baylie | 3,472 | 2007 |
| Bayley | 2,221 | 1997 |
| Bayli | 1,069 | 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 Baylee's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Baylee.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Baylee (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