Harleigh
Harleigh was given to 138 girls in 2025, #1,534 among girls’ names; 5,277 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,230 Americans named Harleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Harleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Harleigh is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Harleigh?
#1,534 among girls’ names, 2025
Harleigh fell from #1,051 in 2015 to #1,534 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.09 per 1,000.
312 babies in 2017, the peak
Harleigh peaked in 2017, when 312 girls were given it, #878 among girls’ names. The 138 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138 | #1,534 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 147 | #1,485 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 182 | #1,265 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 229 | #1,092 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 219 | #1,128 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 257 | #992 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 284 | #931 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 310 | #875 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 312 | #878 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 288 | #950 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 251 | #1,051 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 202 | #1,209 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 202 | #1,190 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 206 | #1,196 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 171 | #1,351 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 165 | #1,397 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 141 | #1,597 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 128 | #1,735 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,914 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,776 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,648 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 149 | #1,397 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 114 | #1,681 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,537 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,704 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,760 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,696 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,015 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,913 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,261 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,161 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,672 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,519 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,518 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,586 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,484 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,082 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Harleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harleigh has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 37 years of records.
Girls and boys named Harleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harleigh, and how old are they?
5,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,277 Americans ever recorded as Harleigh. The median Harleigh alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,526 people named Harleigh (3,472 women and girls, 54 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,133 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 251 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,010 |
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 Harleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Harleigh are Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 11 | #453 | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 10 | #936 | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 10 | #279 | 3.2× |
| Louisiana | 9 | #506 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,489 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 8 | #890 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,189 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 6 | #960 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,304 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,544 | 0.8× |
Where Harleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Harleigh is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1989 it was given 3.2 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 Harleigh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Harleigh
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 Harleigh and names like it
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- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harleigh alive today were born 2013-2025.
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