Maleigha
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 111 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,482since 1991
Maleigha over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Maleigha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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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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| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 |
| 2023 | #3,640 | 42 |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 |
| 2020 | #2,823 | 58 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 |
| 2018 | #2,869 | 58 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 |
| 2016 | #3,182 | 51 |
| 2015 | #2,524 | 71 |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 |
| 2013 | #2,385 | 76 |
| 2012 | #2,286 | 82 |
| 2011 | #2,454 | 74 |
| 2010 | #2,313 | 82 |
| 2009 | #1,889 | 111 |
| 2008 | #3,054 | 56 |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
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First appearance
1991
The first year at least five girls were named Maleigha! It came in at #11,509, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1994, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 617 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #5,917)
- 3,094 spots since 2020 (#2,823 → #5,917)
- 3,393 spots since 2015 (#2,524 → #5,917)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2009 at #1,889 (111 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,551
- Highest: 1 in 16,551 girls born in 2009 were named Maleigha (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 46.7% of all girls named Maleigha (692) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 87 | #5,010 (1997) | #9,670 |
| 2000s | 479 | #1,889 (2009) | #3,615 |
| 2010s | 692 | #2,286 (2012) | #2,602 |
| 2020s | 224 | #2,823 (2020) | #4,198 |
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.
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