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Bayleigh vs Bayne

American parents have registered 5,190 Bayleighs since 1880, against 612 Baynes. Bayleigh is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bayleigh against Bayne, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bayleigh 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 48 years in which either name was published, Bayleigh for 37 years and Bayne for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Bayleigh Bayne
Total US births 5,190612
Most in one year 27269
Babies in 2025 7813
Estimated living today 5,100560
Median age today 1410
Peak year 20122013
Best rank 939th girls1,989th boys
Rank in 2025 2,326th6,446th
First recorded 19891918
Girls / boys 5,190 / 00 / 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 Bayleighs alive today are over 14; half the Baynes are over 10. That is 4 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: Bayleigh and Bayne.