Breleigh — girls' name
384 babies named Breleigh in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Breleigh was born in this single decade.
48 babies were named Breleigh in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Breleigh
The Social Security Administration has registered 384 babies named Breleigh between 1999 and 2022, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Breleigh currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 48 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Breleigh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 176 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Breleigh shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Wisconsin, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Breleigh in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Breleigh 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 384 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.
Breleigh at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Breleigh popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1999
- Peak year (2008)
- 48
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
384 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 48 births in a single year.
Breleigh by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 176 births that decade — 46% of Breleigh's all-time total
Breleigh decade highlights
- Peak decade 176 births
- Runner-up 171 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Breleigh's strongest decade
176 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Breleigh by state
Where Breleigh concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
Top 5 states
- Wisconsin 14.3% of nationwide
- Texas 2.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Wisconsin accounts for 14.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.