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Baylee vs Bayne

American parents have registered 22,403 Baylees since 1880, against 612 Baynes. Baylee is still ahead, with 248 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Baylee Bayne

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

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Baylee for 46 years and Bayne for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Baylee Bayne
Total US births 22,403612
Most in one year 1,04169
Babies in 2025 24813
Estimated living today 22,000560
Median age today 1810
Peak year 19972013
Best rank 296th girls1,989th boys
Rank in 2025 1,008th6,446th
First recorded 19801918
Girls / boys 21,741 / 6620 / 612

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 Baynes are over 10. That is 8 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 Bayne.