Kaleigh
Kaleigh was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,973 among girls’ names; 16,250 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,000 Americans named Kaleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaleigh is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Variant of Kaylee.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaleigh?
#2,973 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaleigh fell from #1,052 in 2015 to #2,973 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.03 per 1,000.
729 babies in 2001, the peak
Kaleigh peaked in 2001, when 729 girls were given it, #399 among girls’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,973 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,758 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,345 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,375 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,853 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,683 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,455 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 171 | #1,328 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 174 | #1,338 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 183 | #1,309 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 251 | #1,052 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 303 | #896 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 305 | #852 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 337 | #796 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 408 | #690 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 503 | #584 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 479 | #628 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 534 | #578 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 571 | #543 | 0.30 |
| 2006 | 636 | #489 | 0.33 |
| 2005 | 675 | #451 | 0.37 |
| 2004 | 641 | #463 | 0.35 |
| 2003 | 668 | #450 | 0.37 |
| 2002 | 670 | #434 | 0.37 |
| 2001 | 729 | #399 | 0.40 |
| 2000 | 683 | #415 | 0.38 |
| 1999 | 647 | #427 | 0.36 |
| 1998 | 625 | #423 | 0.35 |
| 1997 | 538 | #464 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 499 | #482 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 515 | #481 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 520 | #481 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 463 | #525 | 0.26 |
| 1992 | 577 | #435 | 0.31 |
| 1991 | 438 | #533 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 448 | #529 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 349 | #607 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 326 | #613 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 290 | #650 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 288 | #642 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,483 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,456 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,771 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,633 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,711 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,543 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaleigh has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 46 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaleigh, and how old are they?
16,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,250 Americans ever recorded as Kaleigh. The median Kaleigh alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 14,272 people named Kaleigh (14,252 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,030 |
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 Kaleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Kaleigh are Texas, Alabama and Georgia, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,515 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 6 | #766 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,658 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,566 | 1.4× |
Where Kaleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaleigh is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1980 it was given 2.3 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 Kaleigh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,518 babies since 1880, Kaleigh is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 528 babies (11%), again the second 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 Kaleigh
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 Kaleigh and names like it
- Compare Kaleigh and KayleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaleigh peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaleigh since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaleigh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Kaleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.