Bayleigh

#2,332 in 2025Girls' name

Outer castle wall, through Bailey

Bayleigh has been given to 5,190 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #2,332 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 272 recorded.

Babies named Bayleigh, 2025

1 in 42,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bayleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Outer castle wall, through Bailey

surname transfer

What Bayleigh means

Bayleigh belongs to the name family reached through Bayleigh → Bailey. Its meaning is “outer castle wall”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bayleigh is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Bayleigh is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bailey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,190 girls were recorded with the name Bayleigh between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 272 in 2012; its best national rank was #939 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,304 in 2020 to #2,332 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,068 in 2015 to #2,332 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bayleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 42,500; 78 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 20,600; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #2,332; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 29,461 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bayleigh 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bayleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bayleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bayleigh was born before 2011 — so the typical Bayleigh is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 83.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5,190; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (2,239).

Is Bayleigh 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: −196; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,028; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −1,264; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.32×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 28.7%; Peak was 2012 (272)
Years since peak: 13; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #939; 2012

Spellings of Bayleigh

Bayleigh is not the most common spelling — Ryleigh is, with 16.1% against Bayleigh's 2.4%.

Ryleigh16.1%35,139
Kayleigh15.8%34,561
Kyleigh9.3%20,193
Kaleigh7.4%16,244
Haleigh6.6%14,284
Carleigh2.8%6,114
Marleigh2.8%6,111
Caleigh2.6%5,768

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 Bayleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Bayleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,724 girls, against 1 in 10,858 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in 50,000).

258 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Mississippi1 in 1,724
2Alabama1 in 3,030
3North Carolina1 in 4,762
4Georgia1 in 5,263
5Kentucky1 in 5,882
6Ohio1 in 6,667
7Louisiana1 in 7,143
8Tennessee1 in 7,143

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.

Bayleigh around the world

Where Bayleigh 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
1996–2025
#3,333
in 2025
Canada
1996–2021
#2,397
in 2021
South Australia
1998–2010
#801
in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bayleigh in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Bayleigh. Linked forms have their own page here.

Bayley

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Bayleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #2,332
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,028
Best rank ever: #939; 2012
Peak year: 2012; 272 that year
First recorded: 1989
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5,190
Count in 2025: 78

Names similar to Bayleigh

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

Harleigh Karleigh Hayleigh Bryleigh Hadleigh Marleigh Carleigh Oakleigh Rayleigh Baylor Kaileigh Baylie Baileigh Raeleigh Cayleigh Calleigh Kenleigh Caleigh Kinleigh Kynleigh Brynleigh Haileigh Rileigh Adaleigh

Names with a curve like Bayleigh

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bayleigh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Alaysia Kyndall Kylah Kailynn Aleigha Miyah Dayanna Annaliese Kaelynn Alanah Jazzlyn Emme

Sibling names for Bayleigh

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

Kaelynn Audriana Tegan Aubri Alaysia Audrina Tenley Cambria

For a brother

Amare Konnor Jordyn Harper Gannon Channing Rylee Giovanny

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