Kateleigh — girls' name
26 babies named Kateleigh in U.S. Social Security records since 2004, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
26 girls have been named Kateleigh since 2004, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2019.
- 26
- total births
- 2004–2019
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 62%
- born in that decade
62% of everyone ever named Kateleigh was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Kateleigh in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kateleigh
The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Kateleigh between 2004 and 2019, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kateleigh currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kateleigh performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 16 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kateleigh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kateleigh 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 26 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.
Kateleigh at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kateleigh popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2004
- Peak year (2006)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
26 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 6 births in a single year.
Kateleigh by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 16 births that decade — 62% of Kateleigh's all-time total
Kateleigh decade highlights
- Peak decade 16 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kateleigh's strongest decade
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 62% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2004–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.