Bayley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: steward or similar household official; also someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle; or a person from Bailey, Lancashire
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbeɪɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bayley is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
steward or similar household official; also someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle; or a person from Bailey, Lancashire
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Bayleyb. 1745USAmerican physician and surgeon
- Elizabeth Ann Setonb. 1774USnot in their usual namefirst native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821)
- William Butterworth Bayleyb. 1781GBGovernor-General of India (1781-1860)
- James Roosevelt Bayleyb. 1814USCatholic bishop (1814–1877)
- Nancy Bayleyb. 1899USAmerican developmental psychologist (1899–1994)
- Viola Bayleyb. 1911GBBritish writer
- John Bayleyb. 1925GBBritish writer (1925-2015)
- Hagan Bayleyb. 1951GBBritish biochemist
- Blaze Bayleyb. 1963GBBritish heavy metal singer
- Ryan Bayleyb. 1982AUAustralian cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,154 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,362 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 150 | #475 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 88 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 76 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 51 | #44,335 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 51 | #43,744 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #30,113 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #33,405 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #81,780 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 12 | #60,768 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Bayley?
- In the etymology graph, Bailey is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Bayley mean, and where does it come from?
- steward or similar household official; also someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle; or a person from Bailey, Lancashire Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bayley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbeɪɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bayley have the most bearers?
- Bayley is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bayleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bayley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.