Bayley

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Bayley: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #381 in 2003, and it stood at #2,921 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#381highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#2152
1998	#1979
1999	#1557
2000	#2416
2001	#2226
2002	#1530
2003	#1383
2004	#1617
2005	#2084
2006	#3116
2007	#4294
2008	#2022
2009	#3936
2010	#3156
2011	#3185
2012	#2717
2013	#4050
2016	#4096
2017	#2201
2018	#5666
2019	#3151
2020	#3899
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 boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #381 among boys in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bayley appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 809 births with the name.

Bayley across 2 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.

Bayley'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	#898 (1996)	#381 (2003)	#2921 (2024)	29 of 29	809 (1996–2024)	69 (2003)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1383 (2003)	#5891 (2024)	25 of 29	188 (1996–2024)	15 (2003)

Bayley 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 Bayley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	126	4 of 10	32
2000sbusiest	498	10 of 10	50
2010s	149	10 of 10	15
2020s	36	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 50 births a year.

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

Bayley appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #381 in England and Wales in 2003.

Bayley'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1825	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2172	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2027	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2150	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1044	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1303	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1029	27	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#884	31	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2022	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#746	39	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#543	57	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#596	48	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#512	53	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#510	51	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#381	69	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#403	56	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#495	41	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#409	53	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#481	42	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#526	36	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#554	32	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#898	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #381, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 69 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

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.

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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Bayleigh · #890, 29y
Baylie · #2097, 21y
Bea · #372, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Idrees · #381, 29y
Aamir · #379, 29y
Henna · #383, 27y
Kishan · #379, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Idrees · #381, 29y
Elysia · #380, 29y
Kaleigh · #380, 12y
Kaylen · #382, 29y

Bayley was ranked #381 in England and Wales · Boys in 2003. 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.

Bayley 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 Bayley without appearing here.

Bayley moved ahead of

Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2022 and #5545.
Brent Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3412 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1825 and #4608.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4294 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #3156 and #5707.
Kristin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Bayley

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #1436.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #1711.
Noah Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2499.
Tove Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2674.

Moved the opposite way to Bayley

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bayley went from #3126 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bayley went from #898 to #2921 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bayley went from #898 to #2921 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bayley went from #898 to #2921 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.

Moved the same way as Bayley

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bayley went from #898 to #2921 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bayley went from #3126 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bayley went from #898 to #2921 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bayley went from #3126 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #381 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bayley

Bayley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bayley across 2 official records

Bayley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bayley appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Bayley moved ahead of

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Bayley at a glance

Bayley across 2 official records

Bayley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bayley 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 Bayley

Bayley and the names beside it

Bayley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bayley

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