Caleigh
Caleigh was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,473 among girls’ names; 5,768 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,700 Americans named Caleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caleigh?
#3,473 among girls’ names, 2025
Caleigh fell from #1,259 in 2015 to #3,473 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.03 per 1,000.
322 babies in 1999, the peak
Caleigh peaked in 1999, when 322 girls were given it, #702 among girls’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,473 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,697 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,422 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,825 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,215 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,083 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,974 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,981 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 113 | #1,824 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 144 | #1,551 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 194 | #1,259 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,329 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,530 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 153 | #1,477 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 216 | #1,135 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 210 | #1,156 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 289 | #925 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 254 | #1,030 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 257 | #1,027 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 208 | #1,168 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 239 | #1,019 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 227 | #1,027 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 232 | #998 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 214 | #1,014 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 237 | #935 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 251 | #879 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 322 | #702 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 215 | #953 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 153 | #1,186 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 132 | #1,304 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,482 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,881 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,188 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,353 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,459 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,930 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,540 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,434 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,466 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,399 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,266 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caleigh, and how old are they?
5,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,768 Americans ever recorded as Caleigh. The median Caleigh alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 4,890 people named Caleigh (4,873 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,327 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 692 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Caleigh born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,385 | 0.8× |
Where Caleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caleigh is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1984 it was given 1.6 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 Caleigh 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,518 babies since 1880, Caleigh is the third most given (8.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 528 babies (8.3%), 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 Caleigh
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 Caleigh and names like it
- Compare Caleigh and KayleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCaleigh peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Caleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.