Kaleigh — #2781 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kaleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,184 babies named Kaleigh between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaleigh currently holds the #2781 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 729 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaleigh performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 6,286 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kaleigh shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,396 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaleigh in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaleigh 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 16,184 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.