Bailee

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bailee: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bailee: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #894 in 2013, and it stood at #3,015 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#894highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2002	#2301
2003	#1843
2005	#1934
2006	#3548
2007	#1573
2008	#1718
2009	#3031
2010	#2104
2011	#2893
2012	#1387
2013	#2649
2014	#1798
2015	#1865
2016	#1920
2017	#3583
2018	#3985
2019	#2643
2020	#2163
2021	#1962
2022	#3148
2023	#5687
2024	#3015

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 24 of the 27 years from 1997 to 2023.

In 2022: #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3148 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2337 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2013–2022
Highest recorded position: #894 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2013 (recorded 2013–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bailee appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 205 births with the name.

Bailee across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bailee's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2337 (1997)	#1095 (2005)	#2546 (2023)	24 of 27	205 (1997–2023)	19 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#1387 (2012)	#3015 (2024)	23 of 25	236 (2000–2024)	23 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#894 (2013)	#894 (2013)	#905 (2022)	2 of 10	6 (2013–2022)	3 (2013)

Bailee by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bailee in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	3 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	102	9 of 10	11
2010s	75	9 of 10	8
2020s	16	3 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Bailee appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #894 in Republic of Ireland in 2013.

Bailee's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1920	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1865	15	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1387	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1788	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1483	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1294	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1095	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1188	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #894, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bahar · #1681, 26y
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Baileigh · #2005, 18y
Bailey · #23, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Emily-May · #894, 25y
Savanah · #894, 28y
Jadesola · #893, 26y
Oluwanifemi · #893, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chinelo · #894, 10y
Donte · #894, 29y
Elliemay · #894, 21y
Emily-May · #894, 25y

Bailee was ranked #894 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2013. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bailee and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bailee without appearing here.

Bailee moved ahead of

Kristine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3031 and #3031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2104 and #5707.
Carol Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2893 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1387 and #4838.
Finley Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2643 and #5591.
Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Bailee

Leif Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2403 and #2954 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3895 and #1935.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1962 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #1452.
Arne Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2728 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2960.
Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1934 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #3548 and #2137.

Moved the opposite way to Bailee

Carol Compare
Between 2000 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailee went from #3912 to #1962 while Carol went from #1313 to #3519.
Harper Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailee went from #1843 to #3015 while Harper went from #4373 to #22.
Tyler Compare
Between 2000 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailee went from #3912 to #1962 while Tyler went from #251 to #5581.
Blake Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailee went from #1573 to #3015 while Blake went from #5201 to #432.

Moved the same way as Bailee

Barry Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Bailee went from #2337 to #3451 and Barry from #538 to #2301.
Courtney Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Bailee went from #2337 to #3451 and Courtney from #399 to #3990.
Nils Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Bailee went from #2337 to #3451 and Nils from #1761 to #3990.
Tor Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Boys, Bailee went from #2337 to #3451 and Tor from #1578 to #3990.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #894 in Republic of Ireland in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bailee

Bailee at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bailee across 3 official records

Bailee by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bailee appears in

Popularity data

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Bailee at a glance

Bailee across 3 official records

Bailee by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bailee appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bailee

Bailee and the names beside it

Bailee moved ahead of

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