Kyleigh
Kyleigh was given to 190 girls in 2025, #1,202 among girls’ names; 20,199 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,000 Americans named Kyleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kyleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kyleigh is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee and Kylie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kyleigh?
#1,202 among girls’ names, 2025
Kyleigh fell from #383 in 2015 to #1,202 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.48 to 0.12 per 1,000.
1,172 babies in 2011, the peak
Kyleigh peaked in 2011, when 1,172 girls were given it, #272 among girls’ names. The 190 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 190 | #1,202 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 232 | #1,073 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 226 | #1,093 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,181 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 267 | #973 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 329 | #833 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 362 | #768 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 448 | #661 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 529 | #572 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 648 | #483 | 0.37 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 859 | #383 | 0.48 |
| 2014 | 956 | #347 | 0.54 |
| 2013 | 1,111 | #287 | 0.63 |
| 2012 | 1,096 | #289 | 0.62 |
| 2011 | 1,172 | #272 | 0.67 |
| 2010 | 1,112 | #294 | 0.63 |
| 2009 | 1,055 | #311 | 0.57 |
| 2008 | 1,064 | #316 | 0.56 |
| 2007 | 966 | #343 | 0.50 |
| 2006 | 918 | #358 | 0.48 |
| 2005 | 809 | #390 | 0.44 |
| 2004 | 818 | #380 | 0.45 |
| 2003 | 787 | #386 | 0.43 |
| 2002 | 662 | #439 | 0.37 |
| 2001 | 509 | #523 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 443 | #584 | 0.24 |
| 1999 | 372 | #634 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 347 | #664 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 264 | #791 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 203 | #946 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 194 | #969 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 141 | #1,231 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 157 | #1,132 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 148 | #1,184 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 133 | #1,261 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,690 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 125 | #1,258 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,105 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,140 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,879 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,060 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,412 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,033 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,721 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,714 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,737 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,306 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyleigh has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 48 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kyleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyleigh, and how old are they?
20,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 20,199 Americans ever recorded as Kyleigh. The median Kyleigh alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 15,936 people named Kyleigh (15,910 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,679 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,320 |
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 Kyleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Kyleigh are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,176 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,031 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 15 | #699 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #712 | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 12 | #415 | 2.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #895 | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #569 | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 7 | #462 | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,147 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 6 | #988 | 1.2× |
Where Kyleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kyleigh is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1978 it was given 2.5 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 Kyleigh 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 21,812 babies since 1880, Kyleigh is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 190 of their 205 babies (93%), 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 Kyleigh
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Emmaleigh | 2,546 | |
| Brookelynn | 3,475 | |
| Aryana | 7,329 | |
| Brooklynne | 2,009 | |
| Raygan | 1,097 | |
| Myah | 10,255 |
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 Kyleigh and names like it
- Compare Kyleigh and KileighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKyleigh peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyleigh since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kyleigh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Kyleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.