Girls' name · since 2006
Aleighya
Aleighya has 66 recorded births since 2006 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2010 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #31,716 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 66
- born since 2006
- 2010s
- peak decade
Aleighya sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 66 recorded since 2006.
Aleighya has 66 recorded births among girls since 2006, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2006 to 2017.
- #31,716 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 66 born since 2006
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aleighya ranks #31,716 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 66 born since 2006, peaking in the 2010s.
- #31,716 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 66
- born since 2006
- 2010s
- peak decade
Aleighya's 66 recorded births place it above 55.92% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Aleighya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Aleighya splits its recorded history at 2012: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2006 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2010 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Aleighya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2006–2017
- Peak year (2010)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2017.
66 total births across 12 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2010 with 11 births in a single year.
Aleighya by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (54 births, 82% of the file).
2010s was Aleighya's strongest decade.
54 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 82% of all-time use.
Aleighya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 12
2000s
12 births
- 2010s
2010s
54 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 54 births (82% of all-time use).
Aleighya decade highlights
- Peak decade 54 births
- Runner-up 12 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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Two nationwide peer axes for Aleighya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~11 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2006–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aleighya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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