Kayleigh
Kayleigh was given to 340 girls in 2025, #804 among girls’ names; 34,568 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,200 Americans named Kayleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kayleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kayleigh is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.”
/ˈkeɪli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kayleigh?
#804 among girls’ names, 2025
Kayleigh fell from #324 in 2015 to #804 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.56 to 0.21 per 1,000.
1,450 babies in 2009, the peak
Kayleigh peaked in 2009, when 1,450 girls were given it, #227 among girls’ names. The 340 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 340 | #804 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 386 | #731 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 469 | #631 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 590 | #529 | 0.36 |
| 2021 | 754 | #418 | 0.46 |
| 2020 | 706 | #435 | 0.44 |
| 2019 | 644 | #488 | 0.38 |
| 2018 | 707 | #451 | 0.42 |
| 2017 | 798 | #391 | 0.46 |
| 2016 | 958 | #348 | 0.54 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,008 | #324 | 0.56 |
| 2014 | 1,174 | #278 | 0.66 |
| 2013 | 1,135 | #279 | 0.65 |
| 2012 | 1,227 | #265 | 0.70 |
| 2011 | 1,286 | #246 | 0.73 |
| 2010 | 1,298 | #244 | 0.73 |
| 2009 | 1,450 | #227 | 0.79 |
| 2008 | 1,435 | #239 | 0.76 |
| 2007 | 1,396 | #250 | 0.73 |
| 2006 | 1,230 | #266 | 0.65 |
| 2005 | 1,234 | #266 | 0.67 |
| 2004 | 1,161 | #285 | 0.63 |
| 2003 | 1,072 | #290 | 0.59 |
| 2002 | 945 | #324 | 0.53 |
| 2001 | 962 | #321 | 0.53 |
| 2000 | 885 | #349 | 0.49 |
| 1999 | 818 | #363 | 0.46 |
| 1998 | 793 | #364 | 0.45 |
| 1997 | 690 | #383 | 0.40 |
| 1996 | 633 | #411 | 0.36 |
| 1995 | 598 | #432 | 0.34 |
| 1994 | 576 | #437 | 0.32 |
| 1993 | 621 | #402 | 0.34 |
| 1992 | 627 | #407 | 0.34 |
| 1991 | 658 | #390 | 0.35 |
| 1990 | 620 | #414 | 0.33 |
| 1989 | 609 | #407 | 0.33 |
| 1988 | 565 | #415 | 0.32 |
| 1987 | 537 | #416 | 0.31 |
| 1986 | 748 | #321 | 0.44 |
| 1985 | 211 | #794 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,594 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayleigh has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 42 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kayleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayleigh, and how old are they?
34,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 34,568 Americans ever recorded as Kayleigh. The median Kayleigh alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 28,397 people named Kayleigh (28,365 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,610 |
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 Kayleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Kayleigh are Texas, Florida and North Carolina, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #906 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 25 | #682 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 21 | #524 | 1.5× |
| New York | 19 | #844 | 0.9× |
| California | 18 | #1,340 | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 18 | #282 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #670 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 14 | #729 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #549 | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 13 | #381 | 1.6× |
Where Kayleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kayleigh is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1984 it was given 2.0 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 Kayleigh 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, Kayleigh is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 340 of their 528 babies (64%), 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 Kayleigh
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 Kayleigh and names like it
- Compare Kayleigh and KaleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKayleigh peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayleigh since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kayleigh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kayleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.