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Baya

#12,103 in 2025Girls' name

Lady

Baya has been given to 398 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #12,103 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Baya, 2025

1 in 474,000

Baya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baya: meaning, origin, and history

Lady

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Baya means

Baya means “lady”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Baya is used in Arabic (Maghrebi).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈba.ja/ for Baya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 398 girls were recorded with the name Baya between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 2010; its best national rank was #2,589 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,654 in 2020 to #12,103 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,029 in 2015 to #12,103 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Baya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,103
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Baya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baya was born before 2012 — so the typical Baya is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
70.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
398
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Choose a decade

2010s — 70.4% of all recorded uses (280).

Is Baya 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
−4,071
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,449
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,074
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 2010 (70)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
101.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,589
2010

Spellings of Baya

Baya is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 11.5% against Baya'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 Baya is used

Across 1910–2025, Baya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,400,217 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Iowa1 in —
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 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. Baya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Baya around the world

Where Baya 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 & Wales
    1997–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1940–2025
    #462
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Baya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,103
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,449
Best rank ever
#2,589
2010
Peak year
2010
70 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
398
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Baya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Baya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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