Given name & surname

Baley

Baley is a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Baley isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Baley through the years

Babies since 1880
436
103 boys · 333 girls
Most popular year
1997
42 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
05101520002025Highest share 2002Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Baley in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1986–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 535 as a first name in 2020; 1,041 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Appears in

Similar names

If you love Baley, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

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Mahoganey

“resembling the rich, dark wood”

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>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Baley’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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