Baleigh
Baleigh was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,437 among girls’ names; 1,901 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,880 Americans named Baleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Baleigh?
#8,437 among girls’ names, 2025
Baleigh fell from #3,662 in 2015 to #8,437 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 7.5 per million.
98 babies in 1999, the peak
Baleigh peaked in 1999, when 98 girls were given it, #1,678 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,437 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,649 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,975 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,493 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,417 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,931 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,454 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,441 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,907 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,241 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,662 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,927 | 32.5 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,805 | 34.8 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,424 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,096 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,495 | 41.6 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,569 | 39.2 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,723 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,435 | 40.0 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,853 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,479 | 37.9 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,710 | 32.7 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,412 | 37.2 |
| 2002 | 86 | #2,016 | 47.9 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,869 | 51.6 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,983 | 46.3 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,678 | 55.2 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,688 | 53.2 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,926 | 43.1 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,315 | 32.5 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,025 | 38.1 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,370 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,292 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,858 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,664 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,151 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,779 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,985 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Baleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Baleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Baleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baleigh, and how old are they?
1,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,901 Americans ever recorded as Baleigh. The median Baleigh alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,513 people named Baleigh (1,507 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,775 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 253 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 460 |
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 Baleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Baleigh are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 200 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 94 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 81 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Louisiana | 76 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Mississippi | 74 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Indiana | 45 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 18 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Baleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baleigh is most over-represented in Texas: since 1988 it was given 1.1 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 Baleigh 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 9,780 babies since 1880, Baleigh is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 135 babies (8.9%), again the third 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 Baleigh
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 Baleigh and names like it
- Compare Baleigh and BayleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBaleigh peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Baleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Baleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.