Baela
#2,755 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Baela has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #2,755 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 62 recorded.
Babies named Baela, 2025
1 in 53,500
Baela over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Baela?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 53,500
- 62 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 25,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,755
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 37,064 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Baela sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Baelas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Baela was born before 2025 — so the typical Baela is around 0 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 95.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 115
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 95.7% of all recorded uses (110).
Is Baela rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,013
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (62)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 227.5% average annual change
Spellings of Baela
Baela is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 27.0% against Baela's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Baela is used
Across 1910–2025, Baela was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 981,684 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Baela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Baela around the world
Where Baela ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2025–2025#4,867in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Baela by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Baela
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Baela
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.