Kayleigh — #732 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kayleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 34,212 babies named Kayleigh between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kayleigh currently holds the #732 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 1,449 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kayleigh performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 11,769 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kayleigh shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,652 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kayleigh in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kayleigh 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 34,212 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.