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Baylee vs Baylin

American parents have registered 22,403 Baylees since 1880, against 563 Baylins. Baylee is still ahead, with 248 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Baylee Baylin

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 2025, when Baylee had 248 and Baylin had 28.

Side by side

  Baylee Baylin
Total US births 22,403563
Most in one year 1,04136
Babies in 2025 24828
Estimated living today 22,000560
Median age today 1812
Peak year 19972011
Best rank 296th girls4,509th boys
Rank in 2025 1,008th8,243rd
First recorded 19801995
Girls / boys 21,741 / 662270 / 293

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 Baylees alive today are over 18; half the Baylins are over 12. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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