Bailey

Bailey is the 73rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 269,092 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,111.

By the numbers

People: 269,092
Rank: 73rd
How common: 1 in 1,111
Per 100,000: 90.0

Where the name comes from

See bailey (“outer castle wall”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bailey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.4%
Black, not Hispanic 21.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Bailey

Pearl Bailey (1918–1990)American actress and singer
Halle Bailey (born 2000)American singer and actress
Donovan Bailey (born 1967)Canadian athlete, Olympic medalist
Jonathan Bailey (born 1988)English actor
Leon Bailey (born 1997)Jamaican association football player
Kay Bailey Hutchison (born 1943)American politician
G. W. Bailey (born 1944)actor
Alice Bailey (1880–1949)British-American esoteric, theosophist and writer

People named Bailey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bailey

Also a first name

Bailey has been given to 132,544 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1998. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.