Arleigh — #4895 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Arleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 691 babies named Arleigh between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arleigh currently holds the #4895 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 43 babies received it in a single year. Arleigh is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 517 additional births since 1902.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arleigh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 309 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arleigh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Arleigh in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arleigh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 691 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.