Bailey
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning bailiff or steward of a castle.
How Bailey has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #107 |
| 2016 | #116 |
| 2017 | #125 |
| 2018 | #133 |
| 2019 | #158 |
| 2020 | #172 |
| 2021 | #162 |
| 2022 | #182 |
| 2023 | #172 |
| 2024 | #182 |
| 2025 | #209 |
Bailey by the numbers
In 2025, 178 babies in England and Wales were named Bailey. In the US, 2,561 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 5,196 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.
At its height, in 2000, about 1 in 430 American babies born that year was called Bailey.
Names that come from Bailey
Forms of Bailey in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bailey. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Bayleybailiff, steward; spelling variant of Bailey75 in the US (2017)
- Bailybailiff, steward; a form of Bailey16 in the US (2017)
- Baxleybadger clearing; a surname used as a given name8 in the US (2017)
- Bayleebailiff or steward; modern respelling of Bailey585 in the US (2017)
- Brinley1,003 in the US (2017)
- Bayler26 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Bailey
Names that are said the same way as Bailey, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Baileebailiff, officer of law; a form of Bailey518 in the US (2017)
- Bayleighbailiff; a modern spelling variant of Bailey193 in the US (2017)
- Baileighbailiff; variant spelling of Bailey86 in the US (2017)
- Baileibailiff; a form of Bailey20 in the US (2017)
- Baleigh57 in the US (2017)
- Baylei27 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Bailey, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Ameliawork, industriousness2,153 in England and Wales (2025)
- Graysonson of the steward8,767 in the US (2017)
- Penelopeweaver; wife of Odysseus1,174 in England and Wales (2025)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Bailey
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