The name Bailee is a form of Bailey, an English surname derived from Middle English ‘baili’ meaning ‘bailiff’. It was an occupational surname for someone who was a bailiff.
Bailee is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Bailee isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Bailee ranks 583. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Bailee. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Bailee.
The name Bailee is a form of Bailey, an English surname derived from Middle English ‘baili’ meaning ‘bailiff’. It was an occupational surname for someone who was a bailiff.
The spelling Bailee... is an American invention of the 1990s.
Bailee is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Bailee - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 370 in 1997. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Bailee really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bailee was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
312 babies were named Bailee in 2022 - that's 1 in 475,102 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Bailee ranked 805 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Bailee is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Bailee and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bailee, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Elephant
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bailee
Bailee
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
A
I
L
E
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
A
I
L
E
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bailee sounds like this:
