Kyleigh

Where Kyleigh comes from

The dictionaries list Kyleigh as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee and Kylie — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #6,948 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2011
    Peak, #271
    1,172 babies named Kyleigh — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #570.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee and Kylie.
Namesakes

No widely known Kyleigh turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.