Caleigh

#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births

Peak · girls
1999 · 322 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
5,768
since 1984

Caleigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Caleigh has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201990peak #702, 1999girls
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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#3,45944
2024#2,69464
2023#2,41574
2022#2,82160
2021#2,21284
2020#2,07888
2019#1,97198
2018#1,97899
2017#1,824113
2016#1,550144
2015#1,258194
2014#1,326178
2013#1,529143
2012#1,477153
2011#1,135216
2010#1,156210
2009#924289
2008#1,030254
2007#1,027257
2006#1,167208
2005#1,019239
2004#1,025227
2003#998232
2002#1,014214
2001#936237
2000#880251
1999#702322
1998#952215
1997#1,187153
1996#1,306132
1995#1,482107
1994#1,79880
1993#1,88275
1992#2,19161
1991#2,35654
1990#2,46449
1989#2,93137
1988#2,53942
1987#3,42426
1986#3,45925
1985#5,34813
1984#8,1537
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First appearance
1984

The first year at least five girls were named Caleigh! It came in at #8,153, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

Where Caleigh is popular in 1990

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: #740 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 7,747 girlsMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Caleigh, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Massachusetts#740 · 1 in 7,747

Best ever in a state: #223 in Maine, 2005.

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See more about Caleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 765 spots since 2024 (#2,694 → #3,459)
  • 1,381 spots since 2020 (#2,078 → #3,459)
  • 2,201 spots since 2015 (#1,258 → #3,459)
  • Biggest jump: 250 spots in 1999 (#952 → #702)
  • Biggest drop: 232 spots in 2010 (#924 → #1,156)
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1984
  • Peaked 1999 at #702 (322 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1998–2001
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,509
  • Highest: 1 in 5,509 girls born in 1999 were named Caleigh (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 36,529 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 41.7% of all girls named Caleigh (2,408) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s150#2,539 (1988)#4,309
1990s1,248#702 (1999)#1,632
2000s2,408#880 (2000)#1,002
2010s1,548#1,135 (2011)#1,520
2020s414#2,078 (2020)#2,613

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.

Caleigh in 1990

girls
#2,464
49 births · 1 in 38,746 girls

Top girls' names in 1990

  1. #1Jessica46,486
  2. #2Ashley45,561
  3. #3Brittany36,536
  4. #4Amanda34,413
  5. #5Samantha25,868
  6. #6Sarah25,824
  7. #7Stephanie24,864
  8. #8Jennifer22,236
  9. #9Elizabeth20,750
  10. #10Lauren20,506
  11. #2,464Caleigh49
More about 1990

girls

1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 38,746 of them was named Caleigh, which outranked 83.8% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Caleigh
  1. #2,437Taylar50
  2. #2,437Toya50
  3. #2,437Vania50
  4. #2,464Caleigh49
  5. #2,464Cathrine49
  6. #2,464Clair49
  7. #2,464Clarisa49
  8. #2,492Abigayle48
  9. #2,492Allana48
  10. #2,492Asya48

Tied with 27 names at #2,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1989
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,592Alannah#6,531 → #939
  2. ↑ 1,178Symone#1,998 → #820
  3. ↑ 869Shelbi#1,750 → #881
  4. ↑ 831Latifah#1,532 → #701
  5. ↑ 828Skyler#1,564 → #736
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,554Elizabet#524 → #3,078
  2. ↓ 1,572Katherin#717 → #2,289
  3. ↓ 652Stephani#390 → #1,042
  4. ↓ 504Ashanti#893 → #1,397
  5. ↓ 416Audrianna#759 → #1,175

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1990 →