Bailie

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Bailie: Recorded since 1996, it reached #224 in 2000, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#224highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#2738
1998	#2701
1999	#2770
2000	#2416
2001	#2466
2002	#2301
2003	#4373
2004	#2802
2006	#4157
2007	#2410
2009	#3422
2010	#4688
2011	#4049
2012	#5876
2013	#4739
2014	#4003
2015	#3252
2018	#3518
2019	#3151
2020	#4535
2021	#3961
2024	#5891

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2007: #413 among girls in Northern Ireland, #2410 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2013
Highest recorded position: #224 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2000 (recorded 1997–2013).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bailie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 119 births with the name.

Bailie 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.

Bailie'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 · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2301 (2002)	#5891 (2024)	23 of 29	119 (1996–2024)	9 (2007)
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#1851 (2005)	#4749 (2018)	19 of 22	101 (1997–2018)	9 (2005)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#271 (1997)	#224 (2000)	#398 (2013)	11 of 17	39 (1997–2013)	5 (2000)

Bailie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Bailie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	4 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	47	8 of 10	6
2010s	41	8 of 10	5
2020s	12	3 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

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

Bailie 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #224 in Northern Ireland in 2000.

Bailie'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#264	4	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#263	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#224	5	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#241	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#271	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #224, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

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.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 1 year 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.

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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.

Eoghain · #224, 23y
Nicolle · #223, 30y
Aman · #226, 29y
Finton · #222, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Jed · #224, 30y
Lennie · #224, 30y
Roxy · #224, 28y
Alanah · #225, 31y

Bailie was ranked #224 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2000. 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.

Bailie 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 Bailie without appearing here.

Bailie moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4739 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #5666.
Fionn Compare
In 2003 they stood at #4373 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2802 and #4598.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5876 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #5691.
Rian Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5876 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Bailie

Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #1939.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #1628.
Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2802 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #2137.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3252 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #1711.

Moved the opposite way to Bailie

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailie went from #3126 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailie went from #3126 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailie went from #3126 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailie went from #3126 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Bailie

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailie went from #3126 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailie went from #3126 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailie went from #3126 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bailie went from #3126 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #224 in Northern Ireland in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bailie

Bailie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bailie across 3 official records

Bailie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bailie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Bailie at a glance

Bailie across 3 official records

Bailie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bailie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bailie

Bailie and the names beside it

Bailie moved ahead of

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