Jaeleigh
Jaeleigh was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,563 among girls’ names; 366 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaeleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaeleigh?
#8,563 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaeleigh rose from #8,647 in 2015 to #8,563 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 7.5 per million.
22 babies in 2011, the peak
Jaeleigh peaked in 2011, when 22 girls were given it, #6,019 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,563 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,608 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,885 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,720 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,788 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,744 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,840 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,918 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,917 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,159 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,647 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,825 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,919 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,437 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,019 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,749 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,400 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,162 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,871 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,529 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,099 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,199 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,763 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,719 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,320 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,838 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaeleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaeleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaeleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaeleigh, and how old are they?
An estimated 363 Americans named Jaeleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 259 people named Jaeleigh (253 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 297 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,018 babies since 1880, Jaeleigh is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 72 babies (17%), 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 Jaeleigh
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 Jaeleigh and names like it
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- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jaeleigh.
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