Kaeleigh
Kaeleigh was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,377 among girls’ names; 1,426 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Kaeleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaeleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaeleigh?
#11,377 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaeleigh fell from #4,782 in 2015 to #11,377 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 5.0 per million.
65 babies in 2008, the peak
Kaeleigh peaked in 2008, when 65 girls were given it, #2,785 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,377 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,595 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,287 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,845 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,810 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,963 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,548 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,886 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,864 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,781 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,782 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,597 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,739 | 23.4 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,953 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,749 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,380 | 27.0 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,766 | 35.4 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,785 | 34.4 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,109 | 29.1 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,925 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,983 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,901 | 30.0 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,780 | 30.6 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,476 | 35.6 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,472 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,089 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,480 | 32.7 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,630 | 29.4 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,677 | 27.0 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,174 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,382 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,052 | 21.3 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,306 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,935 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,074 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,630 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,936 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,149 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,418 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,248 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,423 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaeleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaeleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaeleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaeleigh, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,426 Americans ever recorded as Kaeleigh. The median Kaeleigh alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,155 people named Kaeleigh (1,154 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,355 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 | 277 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 858 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 274 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,518 babies since 1880, Kaeleigh is the seventh most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 528 babies (1.5%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Kaeleigh
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 Kaeleigh and names like it
- Compare Kaeleigh and KayleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaeleigh peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaeleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kaeleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaeleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.