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Baylee vs Baylie

American parents have registered 22,403 Baylees since 1880, against 3,498 Baylies. Baylee is still ahead, with 248 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Baylee against Baylie, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Baylee Baylie

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

Baylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Baylee had 6 and Baylie had 6.

Side by side

  Baylee Baylie
Total US births 22,4033,498
Most in one year 1,041234
Babies in 2025 24828
Estimated living today 22,0003,500
Median age today 1821
Peak year 19972007
Best rank 296th girls1,105th girls
Rank in 2025 1,008th4,758th
First recorded 19801984
Girls / boys 21,741 / 6623,472 / 26

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Baylies alive today are over 21; half the Baylees are over 18. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Baylee Baylie
England and Wales 486129

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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Related comparisons

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