Aleigh

Peak · girls
2012 · 36 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
668
since 1987

Aleigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Aleigh has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank19801990200020102020peak #4,121, 2012girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#14,9425
2024#12,1617
2023#11,1698
2022#9,05611
2021#8,97811
2020#10,2509
2019#7,71614
2018#9,15111
2017#7,44215
2016#9,41111
2015#5,83322
2014#5,31025
2013#5,31725
2012#4,12136
2011#4,15135
2010#4,30634
2009#4,93129
2008#5,14228
2007#4,67531
2006#4,81129
2005#4,82827
2004#4,49230
2003#4,66827
2002#7,04515
2001#5,36421
2000#4,40027
1999#7,23913
1998#7,10413
1997#4,81921
1996#6,39214
1995#7,51411
1994#6,67213
1993#9,5598
1992#8,7349
1991#13,1475
1990#11,4096
1989#9,6817
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First appearance
1987

The first year at least five girls were named Aleigh! It came in at #11,325, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Aleigh is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Aleigh in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Aleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 4,692 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1987
  • Peaked 2012 at #4,121 (36 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 48,918
  • Highest: 1 in 48,918 girls born in 2012 were named Aleigh (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 39.5% of all girls named Aleigh (264) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s12#9,681 (1989)#10,503
1990s113#4,819 (1997)#8,259
2000s264#4,400 (2000)#5,036
2010s228#4,121 (2012)#6,276
2020s51#8,978 (2021)#11,093

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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