Baird
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Baird has been given to 472 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1957, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Baird, 2024
1 in 371,000
Baird 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Baird?
Baird had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 191,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Baird sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baird. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bairds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Baird was born before 1968 — so the typical Baird is around 57 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 16.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 333
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (79).
Is Baird 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1957 (17)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.3% average annual change
Spellings of Baird
Baird is not the most common spelling — Barry is, with 60.5% against Baird's 0.16%.
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.
Baird around the world
Where Baird 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.
- South Australia1947–1970#540in 1970
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Baird by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Baird
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Baird
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.