Bailey
For 2025 the count puts Bailey at #209 nationwide, cooling off gently. Its record runs from 1916 through a 1998 peak, 110,806 children in all.
Bailey’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Bailey, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Bailey since 1916
Bailey peaked in 1998 at #60; #209 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Bailey is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Bailey runs strongest in Vermont at 0.72% in 2025, then Alaska and New Hampshire.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Bailey
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Bentley
#215 in 2025
Brianna
#222 in 2025
Brayden
#229 in 2025
Brody
#236 in 2025
Bella
#136 in 2025
Brooklyn
#118 in 2025
Victor
#211 in 2025 · Latin
Miguel
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with B · all names
About Bailey
How popular is the name Bailey?
For 2025 the count puts Bailey at #209 nationwide, cooling off gently. The full curve since 1916 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Bailey have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Bailey keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Which names sit near Bailey?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Bentley sits closest, with Brianna and Brayden just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Bailey’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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