Maeleigh
Maeleigh was given to 54 girls in 2025, #3,055 among girls’ names; 883 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maeleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maeleigh?
#3,055 among girls’ names, 2025
Maeleigh rose from #3,198 in 2015 to #3,055 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 29.1 to 33.6 per million.
65 babies in 2016, the peak
Maeleigh peaked in 2016, when 65 girls were given it, #2,685 among girls’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,055 | 33.6 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,315 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,253 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,774 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,142 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,477 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,071 | 31.6 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,323 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,121 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,685 | 36.7 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,198 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,464 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,754 | 23.4 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,299 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,038 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,528 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,226 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,267 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,946 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,112 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,164 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,636 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,960 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,565 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maeleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maeleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maeleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maeleigh, and how old are they?
An estimated 877 Americans named Maeleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 503 people named Maeleigh (501 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 580 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,021 babies since 1880, Maeleigh is the second most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 134 babies (40%), again the second 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 Maeleigh
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 Maeleigh and names like it
- Compare Maeleigh and MayleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaeleigh peaked in 2016.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maeleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Maeleigh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maeleigh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.