How rare is the name Bayleigh?

3,833 people in the United States have the first name Bayleigh, about 1 in 78,798. It ranks #4,740 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 3 others.

first name

BAYLEIGH

#4,740

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,833
About
1 in 78,798
This common or more
84.4%
Who bears it

Of the 3,833 people named Bayleigh, 79.1% reported their origin as White, 8.6% as Black and 5.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Bayleigh peaked in 2012, when 272 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19892025
Peak year
2012
Births that year
272
In 2025*
78 ▼71%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,190 babies have been given the name since 1989. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Bayleigh by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #2,033. The largest share of babies named Bayleigh, 51.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#23,51813
1990s#3,549662
2000s#2,4281,561
2010s#2,0332,239
2020s#3,159715
Millennials 1981–965.3%
Generation Z 1997–1251.6%
2013 and later43.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Bayleigh is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Bayleigh has been most common in Mississippi (3.6×), Alabama (3.3×), and North Carolina (2.7×), and least common in New York (0.26×).

3,515 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Bayleigh

3 other first names also have 3,833 people.

#4,740 Camelia · 3,833#4,740 Iona · 3,833#4,740 Manal · 3,833

Either side of Bayleigh

#4,737 Elan · 3,834#4,737 Nitin · 3,834#4,740 Camelia · 3,833#4,740 Iona · 3,833

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Bayleigh, most common first.

#7,887 Baileigh · 1,880#9,267 Baleigh · 1,513

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