Popularity of the last name by country
Sweden
All countries
- United Kingdom (385,533)
- United States (300,371)
- Australia (22,204)
- Ireland (10,730)
- New Zealand (9,616)
- Canada (8,075)
- France (5,279)
- Unknown country (3,900)
- Germany (1,121)
- Belgium (581)
- Italy (549)
- Switzerland (413)
- Netherlands (412)
- India (279)
- Colombia (274)
- South Africa (245)
- Jamaica (212)
- Mexico (204)
- Spain (198)
- Poland (178)
- Lebanon (164)
- Russian Federation (134)
- China (115)
- Brazil (105)
- Egypt (104)
- Turkey (94)
- Argentina (91)
- Norway (87)
- Denmark (85)
- Greece (84)
- Israel (79)
- Peru (79)
- Sweden (74)
- Portugal (67)
- Austria (66)
- Cuba (52)
- Iraq (50)
- Norfolk Island (48)
- Paraguay (46)
- Seychelles (46)
Origine of last name
BAILEY : 1: English: status name for a steward or official from Middle English bailli ‘manager administrator’ (Old French baillis from Late Latin baiulivus an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant carrier porter’).2: English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton Lancashire named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.3: English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’ a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right denoting a district beside a fortification or wall as in the case of the Old Bailey in London which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.4: Altered form of French <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Bailly">Bailly</a>.
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