Girl
Bailey
Bailey is a girl's name meaning "Middle English occupational surname", drawing on Middle English roots. It shows no signs of slowing down, reaching new highs in the 2000s. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
Middle EnglishMiddle English occupational surname
Etymology"Bailiff" – a steward or official
Also spelled: Baylee
Births by decade
1900s
111
1910s
301
1920s
396
1930s
367
1940s
302
1950s
292
1960s
197
1970s
198
1980s
4,555
1990s
41,540
2000s
43,748
2010s
25,321
Peaked in the 2000s · 117,328 total U.S. births since 1900