Bailey is an English or Scottish surname. It is first recorded in Northumberland, where it was said to have been changed from Balliol due to the unpopularity of Scottish king John Balliol (d. 1314). There appears to be no historical evidence for this, and Bain concludes that the earliest form was Baillie or Bailli (recorded in the early 14th century). The origin of the name is most likely from Anglo-Norman bailli, the equivalent of bailiff; bailie remains a regional Scottish variant of the term bailiff. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the Norman name may have been locational, derived from Bailleul-En-Vimeu in Normandy.
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Aaron Bailey (disambiguation), multiple people
Aaron Bailey (American football) (born 1971), American football player
Abe Bailey (1864–1940), South African diamond tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer Abigail Abbot Bailey (1746–1815), American memoirist Ace Bailey (1903–1992), Canadian ice hockey player Adrian Bailey (born 1945), British politician Sir Alan Bailey (1931–2023), British civil servant Albert Bailey (disambiguation), multiple people Albert Bailey (cricketer) (1872–1950), English cricketer whose name may have been Alfred Albert Bailey (rugby league), English rugby league footballer of the 1930s Bert Bailey (politician) (1915–1999), Australian politician Aleen Bailey (born 1980), Jamaican athlete Alexander Bailey (disambiguation), multiple people Alfred Marshall Bailey (1894–1978), American ornithologist and museum director Alfred Bailey (disambiguation), multiple people Alfred Bailey (poet) (1905–1997), Canadian academic and poet Alice Bailey (1880–1949), British theosophist Alison Bailey, New Zealand academic Alison Bailey, American academic Allen Bailey (born 1989), American footballer Alvin Bailey (born 1991), American footballer Amari Bailey (born 2004), American basketball player Andrew Bailey (disambiguation), multiple people Andrew Bailey (banker) (born 1959), British banker Andrew Bailey (baseball) (born 1984), American baseball pitcher Angela Bailey (1962–2021), Canadian athlete Anne Bailey (1742–1825), British-born American frontier scout Anne Howard Bailey (1924–2006), American writer Anne Bailey (ten-pin bowling) (born 1951), British ten-pin bowler Anthony Bailey (author) (1933–2020), English author Anthony Bailey (PR advisor) (born 1970), Irish-British-Antiguan campaigner and PR consultant Arthur Bailey (disambiguation), multiple people