Baley
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Baley has been given to 436 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 2002, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% girls, 24% boys all-time.
Babies named Baley, 2019
1 in 579,000
Baley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Baley over time
In 2019, Baley went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Baley?
Baley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Baley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Baleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Baley was born before 2000 — so the typical Baley is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 42.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 333
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (142).
Is Baley 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 2002 (22)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.4% average annual change
Spellings of Baley
Baley is not the most common spelling — Sally is, with 13.2% against Baley's 0.02%.
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 Baley is used
Across 1910–2025, Baley was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Baley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Baley around the world
Where Baley 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 Australia1969–1969#510in 1969
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Baley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Baley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Baley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.