Calleigh
Calleigh was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,367 among girls’ names; 2,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,240 Americans named Calleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calleigh?
#6,367 among girls’ names, 2025
Calleigh fell from #2,325 in 2015 to #6,367 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 44.8 to 11.2 per million.
335 babies in 2009, the peak
Calleigh peaked in 2009, when 335 girls were given it, #834 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,367 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,177 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,023 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,191 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,033 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,937 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,283 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,755 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,058 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,521 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 80 | #2,325 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,896 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,908 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,690 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,622 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 176 | #1,338 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 335 | #834 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 212 | #1,200 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,344 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,189 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,360 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,296 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,808 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,378 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,481 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,979 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,740 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,086 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,040 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,920 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,122 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,220 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,776 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,051 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Calleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Calleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Calleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calleigh, and how old are they?
2,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,258 Americans ever recorded as Calleigh. The median Calleigh alive today is 16 years old; half are between 12 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,941 people named Calleigh (1,937 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,086 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 54 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 728 |
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 Calleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Calleigh are Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 164 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 95 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 82 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 80 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 46 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 45 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 41 | not ranked | 0.9× |
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 Calleigh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Calleigh?
Calleigh is a less common spelling of Kaleigh: SSA has recorded 2,258 Calleigh and 16,250 Kaleigh since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,518 babies since 1880, Calleigh is the sixth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 528 babies (3.4%), again the sixth 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 Calleigh
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 Calleigh and names like it
- Compare Calleigh and KaleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCalleigh peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Calleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Calleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.