Harleigh — #1482 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Harleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,131 babies named Harleigh between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Harleigh currently holds the #1482 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 312 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Harleigh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,389 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Harleigh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 516 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Harleigh in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Harleigh 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 5,131 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.