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Bailee vs Baileigh

American parents have registered 16,483 Bailees since 1880, against 2,545 Baileighs. Bailee is still ahead, with 233 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bailee against Baileigh, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bailee Baileigh

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Bailee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Bailee had 560 and Baileigh had 128.

Side by side

  Bailee Baileigh
Total US births 16,4832,545
Most in one year 682128
Babies in 2025 23339
Estimated living today 16,0002,500
Median age today 1716
Peak year 20002010
Best rank 429th girls1,658th girls
Rank in 2025 1,069th3,780th
First recorded 19821988
Girls / boys 16,240 / 2432,545 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Bailee Baileigh
England and Wales 448124
Scotland 43

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bailee and Baileigh.