Karleigh
#3,389 for girls in 2025, 45 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 236 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,032since 1983
Karleigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Karleigh has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #3,389 | 45 |
| 2024 | #3,081 | 52 |
| 2023 | #2,229 | 84 |
| 2022 | #2,142 | 89 |
| 2021 | #1,739 | 118 |
| 2020 | #1,398 | 156 |
| 2019 | #1,373 | 164 |
| 2018 | #1,279 | 179 |
| 2017 | #1,287 | 183 |
| 2016 | #1,088 | 237 |
| 2015 | #1,095 | 236 |
| 2014 | #1,107 | 230 |
| 2013 | #1,046 | 236 |
| 2012 | #1,167 | 210 |
| 2011 | #1,090 | 225 |
| 2010 | #1,095 | 227 |
| 2009 | #1,301 | 186 |
| 2008 | #1,193 | 213 |
| 2007 | #1,244 | 199 |
| 2006 | #1,403 | 161 |
| 2005 | #1,355 | 160 |
| 2004 | #1,363 | 154 |
| 2003 | #1,342 | 151 |
| 2002 | #1,418 | 135 |
| 2001 | #1,476 | 127 |
| 2000 | #1,588 | 111 |
| 1999 | #1,770 | 90 |
| 1998 | #1,690 | 94 |
| 1997 | #1,749 | 87 |
| 1996 | #2,282 | 58 |
| 1995 | #1,730 | 84 |
| 1994 | #2,059 | 67 |
| 1993 | #2,289 | 56 |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 63 |
| 1991 | #2,291 | 56 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 |
| 1988 | #4,308 | 20 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karleigh! It came in at #10,275, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Karleigh is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#737 · 1 in 5,882
- Ohio#952 · 1 in 8,834
- New Jersey#993 · 1 in 8,351
- Pennsylvania#1,029 · 1 in 9,711
- Georgia#1,072 · 1 in 8,554
Best ever in a state: #136 in Mississippi, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #737 | 5 | 1 in 5,882 |
| Ohio | #952 | 7 | 1 in 8,834 |
| New Jersey | #993 | 5 | 1 in 8,351 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,029 | 6 | 1 in 9,711 |
| Georgia | #1,072 | 5 | 1 in 8,554 |
| Texas | #2,030 | 6 | 1 in 23,315 |
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See more about Karleigh
- 308 spots since 2024 (#3,081 → #3,389)
- 1,991 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #3,389)
- 2,294 spots since 2015 (#1,095 → #3,389)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2013 at #1,046 (236 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,435 girls born in 2013 were named Karleigh (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 35,717 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.3% of all girls named Karleigh (2,127) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 91 | #4,308 (1988) | #6,363 |
| 1990s | 673 | #1,690 (1998) | #2,305 |
| 2000s | 1,597 | #1,193 (2008) | #1,368 |
| 2010s | 2,127 | #1,046 (2013) | #1,163 |
| 2020s | 544 | #1,398 (2020) | #2,330 |
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.
Karleigh in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 20,008 of them was named Karleigh, which outranked 89.2% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,741Richelle88
- #1,741Sammantha88
- #1,741Thea88
- #1,749Karleigh87
- #1,749Aya87
- #1,749Bayli87
- #1,749Gianni87
- #1,757Cami86
- #1,757Fantasia86
- #1,757Harper86
Tied with 7 names at #1,749; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.