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Baylie vs Bayron

American parents have registered 3,498 Baylies since 1880, against 1,669 Bayrons. But in 2025 it was Bayron that was commoner, 44 babies to 28.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Baylie against Bayron, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Baylie Bayron

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 45 years in which either name was published, Baylie for 31 years and Bayron for 14 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Baylie Bayron
Total US births 3,4981,669
Most in one year 234149
Babies in 2025 2844
Estimated living today 3,5001,600
Median age today 2113
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 1,105th girls1,209th boys
Rank in 2025 4,758th2,833rd
First recorded 19841977
Girls / boys 3,472 / 260 / 1,669

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 Bayrons are over 13. That is 8 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.

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