Recorded 1918–2025 · United States
Baylor was most popular in 2024, when 1,253 American babies were given the name — ranking #537 that year. In 2025 it ranked #533, with 1,229 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 12,731 people named Baylor.
Baylor first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1918, which makes it about 107 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 45 of the 108 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 12,731 American births named Baylor between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 12,596 are estimated to be alive today.
1,229 American babies were named Baylor in 2025, ranking #533 that year.
Baylor is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 1,179 births a year, against 315 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +275% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Baylor is a unisex name — 29.2% of the 12,731 Americans given it were girls and 70.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 31% girls and 69% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 12,596 Americans named Baylor are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 6 years old, and half are between 3 and 11. That is a narrow band because Baylor is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org