Name: Bailey
Gender: Male
Usage: Bailey is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Bailey are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Bailey is: Bailiff, Steward.
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Numerology of the first name Bailey: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Bailey is ranked on the 1,018th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 520500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.008% of the population. The name Bailey has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Bailey for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Bailey is a given name taken from an English surname meaning "bailiff".
The name is in use for both boys and girls in the United States. Bailey was the 666th most popular name for American boys born in 2007 and the 83rd most popular name for American girls. It was most popular for boys in the late 1990s, when it ranked among the top 200 names. Bailey was the 70th most popular name for boys born in England and Wales and Ireland in 2007 and was the 91st most popular name for boys born in Scotland in 2006.
English: transferred use of the surname, which has various origins. Most commonly it was an occupational name for a bailiff or administrative official; in other cases it apparently originated as a local name for someone who lived near a bailey, i.e. a city fortification, and in others it may be a local name from Bailey in Lancashire, which gets its name from Old English bēg berry + lēah wood, clearing.
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