Halleigh
Halleigh was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 333 Americans have been recorded with it between 1995 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Halleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Halleigh?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,460, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 2009, the peak
Halleigh peaked in 2009, when 25 girls were given it, #5,603 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,460 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,618 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,267 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,578 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,050 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,777 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,868 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,129 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,645 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,149 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,642 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,160 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,194 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,555 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,036 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,603 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,083 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,402 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,875 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,084 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,233 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,928 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,752 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,627 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,730 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,240 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,364 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,219 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Halleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Halleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Halleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Halleigh, and how old are they?
An estimated 330 Americans named Halleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 279 people named Halleigh (279 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Halleigh?
Halleigh is a less common spelling of Haleigh: SSA has recorded 333 Halleigh and 14,293 Haleigh since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 22,532 babies since 1880, Halleigh is the fifth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 65 babies recorded by SSA was a Halleigh (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Halleigh
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 Halleigh and names like it
- Compare Halleigh and HaleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHalleigh peaked in 2009.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Halleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Halleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Halleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.