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How popular is the name Bailey?
Births per year, rank history and how many Baileys are alive today.
Bailey (male), once a common boys' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 260th in 2025 with 178 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2007, when 1,079 babies were given the name, the 70th most popular that year. It has declined since 2007; the 2025 figure is roughly 16% of its peak. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 16,000 babies have been named Bailey in England and Wales since 1996. Bailey is one spelling of a name also recorded as Bayley; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Bailey you are most likely to meet is around 20 years old. Half of all Baileys born in England and Wales are between 14 and 24, and there are at least 17,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 5.5% chance that at least one of them will be called Bailey.
How many babies are named Bailey each year?
Includes all spellings: Bailey, Bayley. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Bailey spelling rank?
Where does the Bayley spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Bailey most popular?
Bailey peaked in 2007, when 1,136 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Bailey?
At least 17,000 people named Bailey in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Bailey?
Most living Baileys are between 14 and 24; the most common age is about 20.
Is Bailey becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2007 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.