Kaleigha
Kaleigha was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,114 among girls’ names; 1,017 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Kaleigha 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 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaleigha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaleigha?
#4,114 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaleigha fell from #3,044 in 2015 to #4,114 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 31.4 to 21.8 per million.
67 babies in 2010, the peak
Kaleigha peaked in 2010, when 67 girls were given it, #2,678 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,114 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,710 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,691 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,735 | 25.0 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,315 | 29.3 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,869 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,528 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,270 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,180 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,037 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #3,044 | 31.4 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,249 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,202 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,882 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,707 | 37.0 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,678 | 37.7 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,982 | 31.6 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,311 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,741 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,956 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,304 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,086 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,770 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,610 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,989 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,458 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,827 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,558 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaleigha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaleigha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaleigha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaleigha, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,017 Americans ever recorded as Kaleigha. The median Kaleigha alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 623 people named Kaleigha (618 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 802 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 448 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 556 |
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,210 babies since 1880, Kaleigha is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 43 babies (81%), again the 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 Kaleigha
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 Kaleigha and names like it
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- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaleigha since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Kaleigha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaleigha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.