Baylie

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 57 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
57
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Baylie by the numbers

Baylie was given to 57 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 234 babies in 2007, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Baylie

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Baylie. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Bayleebailiff or steward; modern respelling of Bailey585 in the US (2017)
  • Bailiebailiff; officer of the law9 in the US (2017)
  • Brylie63 in the US (2017)
  • Braylie40 in the US (2017)
  • Baylin23 in the US (2017)
  • Bayli12 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Baylie

Names that are said the same way as Baylie, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Bailybailiff, steward; a form of Bailey16 in the US (2017)
  • Balistrong; mighty; lord of demons in hindu mythology11 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Baylie

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