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
Rank among girls' names. Maleigha 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 | #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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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.
Where Maleigha is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#294 · 1 in 1,132
- Kentucky#446 · 1 in 2,143
- Indiana#580 · 1 in 2,882
- Louisiana#712 · 1 in 3,442
- Tennessee#723 · 1 in 3,815
Best ever in a state: #294 in West Virginia, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #294 | 6 | 1 in 1,132 |
| Kentucky | #446 | 9 | 1 in 2,143 |
| Indiana | #580 | 11 | 1 in 2,882 |
| Louisiana | #712 | 6 | 1 in 3,442 |
| Tennessee | #723 | 8 | 1 in 3,815 |
| Missouri | #737 | 7 | 1 in 4,001 |
| Alabama | #797 | 5 | 1 in 4,003 |
| North Carolina | #911 | 9 | 1 in 5,157 |
| Texas | #2,309 | 8 | 1 in 20,834 |
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See more about Maleigha
- 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)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2009 at #1,889 (111 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 46.7% of all girls named Maleigha (692) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Maleigha in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 16,551 of them was named Maleigha, which outranked 90.6% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,876Leeann112
- #1,876Rain112
- #1,876Zaniah112
- #1,889Maleigha111
- #1,889Blessing111
- #1,889Chloie111
- #1,889Jazleen111
- #1,901Adria110
- #1,901Amarie110
- #1,901Aubrielle110
Tied with 11 names at #1,889; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.