Keileigh — girls' name
211 babies named Keileigh in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
211 girls have been named Keileigh since 1997, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2017.
- 211
- total births
- 1997–2017
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 46%
- born in that decade
46% of everyone ever named Keileigh was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Keileigh in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Keileigh
The Social Security Administration has registered 211 babies named Keileigh between 1997 and 2017, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Keileigh currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Keileigh performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 97 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Keileigh shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Keileigh in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Keileigh 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 211 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.
Keileigh at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Keileigh popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1997
- Peak year (2012)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 21 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
211 total births across 21 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 20 births in a single year.
Keileigh by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 97 births that decade — 46% of Keileigh's all-time total
Keileigh decade highlights
- Peak decade 97 births
- Runner-up 81 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Keileigh's strongest decade
97 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Keileigh by state
Where Keileigh concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 5 | 2.4% |
5 of 211 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1997–2017 (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.