Baily is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Baily is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Baily each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Baily will meet someone with the same name. So, Baily is a very special name!
In fact, the name Baily hardly fits the trend of first names. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Baily wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1997, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,088, 149 parents chose it in 1997 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Baily, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Baily was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Baily a few times. Among all newborn babies, it ranked 15,186, for a total of 11 newborns. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Baily seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With five letters, the name Baily is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
That means that with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Baily 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 Baily, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Baily
Baily
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
A
I
L
Y
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
Y
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. Baily sounds like this:
