Aleigha
Aleigha was given to 53 girls in 2025, #3,067 among girls’ names; 4,867 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,820 Americans named Aleigha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleigha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aleigha?
#3,067 among girls’ names, 2025
Aleigha fell from #1,147 in 2015 to #3,067 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.03 per 1,000.
317 babies in 2012, the peak
Aleigha peaked in 2012, when 317 girls were given it, #841 among girls’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,067 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,611 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,588 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,693 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,992 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,924 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,726 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 140 | #1,548 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 171 | #1,353 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 182 | #1,314 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 221 | #1,147 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 243 | #1,062 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 294 | #877 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 317 | #841 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 267 | #956 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 253 | #995 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,092 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 175 | #1,374 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 146 | #1,556 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,315 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 126 | #1,608 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,412 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,541 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 152 | #1,288 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,445 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 130 | #1,419 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,751 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,733 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,042 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,227 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,240 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,251 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,586 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,578 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,931 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,851 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,838 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,364 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,968 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,083 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,547 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,719 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,647 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,575 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleigha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleigha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleigha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleigha, and how old are they?
4,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,867 Americans ever recorded as Aleigha. The median Aleigha alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,584 people named Aleigha (3,583 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 408 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,810 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aleigha born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,930 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,455 | 1.7× |
Where Aleigha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aleigha is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1981 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aleigha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,208 babies since 1880, Aleigha is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 53 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aleigha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aleigha and names like it
- Compare Aleigha and AaleighaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAleigha peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleigha since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Aleigha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aleigha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.