Baylor is the Americanized form the German surname Beiler. It is derived from Middle High German ‘beile’ meaning ‘measuring stick’.
Baylor is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
The name Baylor is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #990 in the SmartGenius ranking.
Baylor is the Americanized form the German surname Beiler. It is derived from Middle High German ‘beile’ meaning ‘measuring stick’.
Baylor is known as... a given name since the 21st century, and also used for girls since the 2020s.
Baylor is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Baylor cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #586 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Baylor, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their newborn child. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Baylor seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Baylor was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 six letters, the name Baylor 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.
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 Baylor 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 Baylor, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Apple
Yoyo
Lion
Orange
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Baylor
Baylor
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
A
Y
L
O
R
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
Y
L
O
R
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. Baylor sounds like this:
