Kaleigh
#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #9,948
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 729 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,244since 1980
Kaleigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaleigh has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,957 | 56 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,749 | 62 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,336 | 78 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,364 | 78 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,851 | 108 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,678 | 122 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,452 | 152 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,325 | 171 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,334 | 174 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,307 | 183 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,049 | 251 | — | |
| 2014 | #896 | 303 | — | |
| 2013 | #852 | 305 | — | |
| 2012 | #793 | 337 | — | |
| 2011 | #688 | 408 | — | |
| 2010 | #584 | 503 | — | |
| 2009 | #628 | 479 | — | |
| 2008 | #578 | 534 | — | |
| 2007 | #543 | 571 | — | |
| 2006 | #489 | 636 | — | |
| 2005 | #451 | 675 | — | |
| 2004 | #463 | 641 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #449 | 668 | — | |
| 2002 | #433 | 670 | — | |
| 2001 | #399 | 729 | — | |
| 2000 | #415 | 683 | — | |
| 1999 | #427 | 647 | — | |
| 1998 | #423 | 625 | — | |
| 1997 | #464 | 538 | — | |
| 1996 | #481 | 499 | — | |
| 1995 | #481 | 515 | — | |
| 1994 | #481 | 520 | — | |
| 1993 | #525 | 463 | — | |
| 1992 | #435 | 577 | — | |
| 1991 | #532 | 438 | — | |
| 1990 | #529 | 448 | — | |
| 1989 | #608 | 349 | — | |
| 1988 | #613 | 326 | — | |
| 1987 | #648 | 290 | — | |
| 1986 | #641 | 288 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,483 | 83 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | — | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaleigh! It came in at #8,178, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1982, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaleigh is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#378 · 1 in 1,365
- Louisiana#455 · 1 in 1,808
- South Carolina#515 · 1 in 2,220
- Georgia#594 · 1 in 2,772
- North Carolina#680 · 1 in 3,491
Best ever in a state: #113 in West Virginia, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #378 | 8 | 1 in 1,365 |
| Louisiana | #455 | 11 | 1 in 1,808 |
| South Carolina | #515 | 8 | 1 in 2,220 |
| Georgia | #594 | 17 | 1 in 2,772 |
| North Carolina | #680 | 13 | 1 in 3,491 |
| Alabama | #796 | 5 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Illinois | #843 | 12 | 1 in 4,629 |
| Tennessee | #933 | 6 | 1 in 5,100 |
| Virginia | #1,069 | 6 | 1 in 6,005 |
| Michigan | #1,303 | 5 | 1 in 8,253 |
| Texas | #1,446 | 16 | 1 in 9,992 |
| New York | #1,460 | 9 | 1 in 9,777 |
| Ohio | #1,460 | 5 | 1 in 10,355 |
| Florida | #1,489 | 8 | 1 in 10,745 |
| California | #3,267 | 5 | 1 in 39,150 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaleigh
- 208 spots since 2024 (#2,749 → #2,957)
- 1,279 spots since 2020 (#1,678 → #2,957)
- 1,908 spots since 2015 (#1,049 → #2,957)
- Biggest jump: 842 spots in 1986 (#1,483 → #641)
- Biggest drop: 153 spots in 2015 (#896 → #1,049)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2001 at #399 (729 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1986–2014
- Highest: 1 in 2,470 girls born in 2001 were named Kaleigh (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.7% of all girls named Kaleigh (6,286) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 1,397 | #608 (1989) | #3,591 |
| 1990s | 5,270 | #423 (1998) | #478 |
| 2000s | 6,286 | #399 (2001) | #485 |
| 2010s | 2,787 | #584 (2010) | #1,028 |
| 2020s | 504 | #1,678 (2020) | #2,323 |
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.
Kaleigh in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 9,922 of them was named Kaleigh, which outranked 92.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,331Audra175
- #1,331Haddie175
- #1,331Merritt175
- #1,334Kaleigh174
- #1,334Amilia174
- #1,334Evangelina174
- #1,334Hensley174
- #1,340Amal173
- #1,340Annaleigh173
- #1,340Baylor173
Tied with 5 names at #1,334; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.