Bailleul
loc · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bailleul is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Dutch, written in the Latin script.
- GEGeorgia1 in 745◐
- CACanada1 in 2K
- AIAnguilla1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈188K ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 367 ●
- 1 in 225 ◐
across 15 countries
recorded for this name
575K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bales in HU Hungary, ES Spain, GB United Kingdom and 5 more, Belle in US United States, CA Canada, AI Anguilla and 1 more, Белла in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, TR Türkiye and Bela in GE Georgia, IN India, HR Croatia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 107,147 | 362K rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 278K | Belle | 367 |
| CA Canada | — | 104,209 | 7.9K rec. | — | 37 | Belle | 112 |
| RU Russia | #307 | 103,797 | 46K rec. | — | #346 | Белла | 136 |
| HU Hungary | — | 43,353△ | 37 rec. | 1 in 225 | 43K | Bales | 3 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,006△ | 218 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Vela | 30 |
| UA Ukraine | #415 | 10,138 | 14K rec. | — | — | Белла | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,413△ | 20 rec. | 1 in 29K | 7.4K | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,466 | 17K rec. | — | 619 | Bales | 159 |
| GE Georgia | #164 | 5,368 | 5.7K rec. | 1 in 745 | 5.4K | Bela | 40 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,998 | 21K rec. | — | 198 | Bales | 165 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,233△ | 921 rec. | 1 in 3.2K | 3.2K | Bales | 44 |
| FR France | — | 3,205 | 19K rec. | 1 in 21K | 3.2K | Bailleul | 238 |
Roughly 107K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 3.1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French23K54%
- Dutch71%
- Portuguese61%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 22,643 | 54% |
| Dutch | 7 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 6 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 351 |
| 1901 | 601 |
| 1911 | 508 |
| 1921 | 825 |
| 1931 | 744 |
| 1941 | 942 |
| 1951 | 1,240 |
| 1961 | 1,066 |
| 1971 | 1,002 |
| 1981 | 1,108 |
| 1991 | 886 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- John de Balliolb. 1210not in their usual nameEnglish nobleman (1210-1268)
- Jacques-Charles Bailleulb. 1762FRFrench politician, writer, magistrate, economist, journalist, poet and lawyer
- Louis Blanquart de Bailleulb. 1795FRCatholic archbishop
- Nicolas Baillieulb. 1800FRnot in their usual name18th-century French draughtsman, engraver, cartographer
- Charles Bailleulb. 1927FRFrench linguist
- Guga Baùlb. 1986BEnot in their usual nameBelgian comedian, impressionist, actor and cabaret artist
- Margaux Bailleulb. 1999FRFrench rower
- Maxime Bailleulactor
- Luc-Jérôme Bailleulfilm producer
- Thomas BailleulBEBelgian lawyer
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 942 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 886 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 825 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 744 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 601 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 508 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 387 | #4,167 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 378 | #4,199 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bailleul?
- We estimate roughly 188 thousand people bear Bailleul (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bailleul have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 107 thousand people bear Bailleul in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled belle.
- Where is Bailleul most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bailleul is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 225 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Bailleul compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Bailleul is the 164th most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Bailleul” — the 164th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.