Bayley
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning bailiff, steward; spelling variant of Bailey.
Bayley by the numbers
In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Bayley. In the US, 75 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 150 babies in 1997, making it a 1990s name.
Other names that come from Bailey
Like Bayley, each of these traces back to Bailey: a form of it, a name built from it, or 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 Bayley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Baileybailiff or steward of a castle2,561 in the US (2017)
- Bayleebailiff or steward; modern respelling of Bailey585 in the US (2017)
- Baxleybadger clearing; a surname used as a given name8 in the US (2017)
- Bayler26 in the US (2017)
- Bryley19 in the US (2017)
- Baylorone who delivers goods; a bailer481 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Bayley
Names that are said the same way as Bayley, 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 Bayley, 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 Bayley
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