Aleigha
#3,067 for girls in 2025, 53 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 317 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,867since 1981
Aleigha over time
Rank among girls' names. Aleigha has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,067 | 53 |
| 2024 | #2,607 | 67 |
| 2023 | #2,588 | 68 |
| 2022 | #2,689 | 64 |
| 2021 | #1,991 | 97 |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 |
| 2019 | #1,724 | 120 |
| 2018 | #1,548 | 140 |
| 2017 | #1,353 | 171 |
| 2016 | #1,313 | 182 |
| 2015 | #1,146 | 221 |
| 2014 | #1,062 | 243 |
| 2013 | #877 | 294 |
| 2012 | #841 | 317 |
| 2011 | #956 | 267 |
| 2010 | #995 | 253 |
| 2009 | #1,091 | 233 |
| 2008 | #1,374 | 175 |
| 2007 | #1,556 | 146 |
| 2006 | #1,314 | 178 |
| 2005 | #1,609 | 126 |
| 2004 | #1,413 | 147 |
| 2003 | #1,542 | 125 |
| 2002 | #1,288 | 152 |
| 2001 | #1,444 | 130 |
| 2000 | #1,421 | 130 |
| 1999 | #1,753 | 91 |
| 1998 | #1,734 | 91 |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 |
| 1996 | #2,229 | 60 |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 |
| 1993 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1992 | #3,581 | 30 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aleigha! It came in at #5,571, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 13 girls a year got the name.
Where Aleigha is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#475 · 1 in 2,436
- Georgia#691 · 1 in 4,949
- Pennsylvania#1,156 · 1 in 11,660
- Ohio#1,193 · 1 in 12,324
- Texas#2,427 · 1 in 28,689
Best ever in a state: #170 in Mississippi, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #475 | 5 | 1 in 2,436 |
| Georgia | #691 | 9 | 1 in 4,949 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,156 | 5 | 1 in 11,660 |
| Ohio | #1,193 | 5 | 1 in 12,324 |
| Texas | #2,427 | 5 | 1 in 28,689 |
| California | #3,059 | 5 | 1 in 44,203 |
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See more about Aleigha
- 460 spots since 2024 (#2,607 → #3,067)
- 1,143 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #3,067)
- 1,921 spots since 2015 (#1,146 → #3,067)
- Biggest jump: 115 spots in 2012 (#956 → #841)
- Biggest drop: 185 spots in 2014 (#877 → #1,062)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2012 at #841 (317 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2010–2013
- Highest: 1 in 5,555 girls born in 2012 were named Aleigha (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,326 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.4% of all girls named Aleigha (2,208) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 128 | #3,647 (1982) | #5,394 |
| 1990s | 541 | #1,734 (1998) | #2,718 |
| 2000s | 1,542 | #1,091 (2009) | #1,405 |
| 2010s | 2,208 | #841 (2012) | #1,182 |
| 2020s | 448 | #1,924 (2020) | #2,478 |
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.
Aleigha in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 19,417 of them was named Aleigha, which outranked 89.6% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,721Ricki92
- #1,721Rileigh92
- #1,721Zahra92
- #1,734Aleigha91
- #1,734Abrianna91
- #1,734Ambria91
- #1,734Angelika91
- #1,751Brittaney90
- #1,751Charley90
- #1,751Emelia90
Tied with 16 names at #1,734; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.