Baye

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Baye has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2013, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Baye, 2015

1 in 463,000

Baye over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baye: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Baye means

Baye is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Baye is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 girls were recorded with the name Baye between 1997 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2013; its best national rank was #9,704 in 2013.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Baye?

Baye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 463,000; 8 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only: 1 in 223,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 320,718 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Baye 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 2015 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 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bayes were born

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

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 71.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 56; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 71.4% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Baye 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: —; Not ranked then
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: 0%; Peak was 2013 (11)
Years since peak: 12; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,704; 2013

Spellings of Baye

Baye is not the most common spelling — Jane is, with 24.1% against Baye's <0.01%.

Jane24.1%379,876
Maya7.8%123,587
Mae7.3%114,835
Jade6.5%103,311
Kay6.3%98,621
Kate5.5%85,987
Faye4.6%72,142
Gayle3.9%61,357

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.

Baye around the world

Where Baye 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
2012–2016
#5,785
in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Baye by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,704; 2013
Peak year: 2013; 11 that year
First recorded: 1997
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 56
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Baye

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

Baylah Baya Bayah Baylyn Bayly Taye Caye Bayker Bayler Bay Baylen Baylin Bayoleth Chaye Bayle Bayyinah Baylea Daye Baylynn Baylei Bayla Bayan Bayaan Aye

Sibling names for Baye

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

For a sister

Alyvia Gwyneth Sofie Honesty Aubri Kaelynn Kendyl Elayna

For a brother

Gibson Tobin Jaxen Arian Jai Vihaan Konnor Landry

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