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How popular is “Bailey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bailey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bailey” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bailey” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bailey” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bailey” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bailey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bailey” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 12 0.000059558 12 -100%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1882 8 0.000036112 8 -100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 -100%
1886 7 0.000027417 7 -100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 -100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 -100%
1891 10 0.000034883 10 -100%
1892 10 0.000029907 10 -100%
1893 16 0.000049197 16 -100%
1894 11 0.000032478 11 -100%
1895 10 0.000028488 10 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1897 13 0.000037469 13 -100%
1898 14 0.000036702 14 -100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 -100%
1900 19 0.000042198 19 -100%
1901 12 0.000034701 12 -100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 -100%
1906 15 0.00003501 15 -100%
1907 14 0.000030082 14 -100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 -100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 -100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 -100%
1911 11 0.000017073 11 -100%
1912 26 0.000026314 26 -100%
1913 24 0.000021106 24 -100%
1914 34 0.000024005 34 -100%
1915 34 0.000018555 34 -100%
1916 56 0.000028949 6 50 -79%
1917 33 0.000016444 33 -100%
1918 37 0.000017042 37 -100%
1919 36 0.00001706 36 -100%
1920 48 0.000021214 48 -100%
1921 48 0.000020561 48 -100%
1922 39 0.000017037 39 -100%
1923 33 0.000014332 33 -100%
1924 44 0.000018475 44 -100%
1925 36 0.000015429 6 30 -67%
1926 32 0.000013938 32 -100%
1927 36 0.000015522 36 -100%
1928 45 0.000019903 45 -100%
1929 35 0.000015966 35 -100%
1930 42 0.000018891 42 -100%
1931 35 0.000016632 35 -100%
1932 41 0.000019419 41 -100%
1933 35 0.000017505 35 -100%
1934 30 0.000014445 30 -100%
1935 37 0.000017704 37 -100%
1936 34 0.000016365 34 -100%
1937 41 0.000019243 41 -100%
1938 34 0.000015367 34 -100%
1939 38 0.000017246 38 -100%
1940 31 0.000013463 31 -100%
1941 33 0.000013544 33 -100%
1942 31 0.000011348 31 -100%
1943 27 0.000009566 27 -100%
1944 32 0.000011896 32 -100%
1945 31 0.000011685 31 -100%
1946 31 0.000009702 31 -100%
1947 28 0.000007773 28 -100%
1948 27 0.00000782 27 -100%
1949 31 0.000008896 31 -100%
1950 35 0.00000999 35 -100%
1951 29 0.000007872 29 -100%
1952 34 0.000008952 34 -100%
1953 25 0.000006487 25 -100%
1954 29 0.000007285 29 -100%
1955 28 0.000006974 28 -100%
1956 32 0.000007761 5 27 -69%
1957 31 0.000007377 31 -100%
1958 21 0.00000508 21 -100%
1959 28 0.000006734 28 -100%
1960 15 0.000003611 15 -100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 -100%
1962 21 0.000005204 21 -100%
1963 22 0.000005558 22 -100%
1964 23 0.000005916 23 -100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1966 22 0.00000633 22 -100%
1967 26 0.000007659 26 -100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 -100%
1969 26 0.000007481 26 -100%
1970 20 0.000005546 20 -100%
1971 19 0.000005536 19 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 18 0.000005966 18 -100%
1974 16 0.000005263 16 -100%
1975 19 0.000006293 5 14 -47%
1976 15 0.000004943 15 -100%
1977 18 0.000005667 18 -100%
1978 22 0.000006932 6 16 -45%
1979 36 0.000010821 17 19 -6%
1980 86 0.000024967 56 30 30%
1981 110 0.000031798 84 26 53%
1982 151 0.000043045 110 41 46%
1983 183 0.000052839 153 30 67%
1984 307 0.000087997 267 40 74%
1985 348 0.000097503 309 39 78%
1986 541 0.000152091 500 41 85%
1987 676 0.000187485 611 65 81%
1988 1019 0.000275775 942 77 85%
1989 1139 0.000296271 1051 88 85%
1990 1347 0.000340799 1260 87 87%
1991 1537 0.000394582 1435 102 87%
1992 1849 0.000481351 1730 119 87%
1993 2263 0.000600221 2134 129 89%
1994 2539 0.000682958 2351 188 85%
1995 4499 0.001228512 3489 1010 55%
1996 5742 0.001574361 4192 1550 46%
1997 7320 0.002018893 5024 2296 37%
1998 7438 0.002022181 5199 2239 40%
1999 7017 0.001899635 4809 2208 37%
2000 6404 0.001694223 4649 1755 45%
2001 5573 0.001488758 4339 1234 56%
2002 4513 0.001207236 3662 851 62%
2003 4226 0.001111427 3467 759 64%
2004 3908 0.00102279 3309 599 69%
2005 3468 0.000901987 2991 477 72%
2006 3345 0.000845511 2980 365 78%
2007 4289 0.001072871 3934 355 83%
2008 4183 0.001064196 3906 277 87%
2009 3862 0.001010948 3643 219 89%
2010 3794 0.001026588 3598 196 90%
2011 3485 0.000952761 3317 168 90%
2012 3538 0.000967363 3417 121 93%
2013 3143 0.000862119 3019 124 92%
2014 3085 0.000832349 2950 135 91%
2015 2964 0.000800884 2853 111 93%
2016 2822 0.00076921 2712 110 92%
2017 2577 0.000720598 2433 144 89%
2018 2308 0.000656447 2180 128 89%
2019 1939 0.000558639 1819 120 88%
2020 1760 0.000526855 1667 93 89%
2021 1893 0.000558745 1774 119 87%
2022 1767 0.000522297 1648 119 87%
2023 1833 0.000553576 1682 151 84%
2024 1799 0.000540484 1644 155 83%

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