Maleigh
Maleigh was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,380 among girls’ names; 246 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 Maleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maleigh?
#16,380 among girls’ names, 2025
Maleigh fell from #12,555 in 2015 to #16,380 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
19 babies in 2016, the peak
Maleigh peaked in 2016, when 19 girls were given it, #6,583 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,380 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,328 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,847 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,903 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,992 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,741 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,313 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,583 | 10.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,555 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,930 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 15 | #8,019 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,666 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,018 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,756 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,202 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,271 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,438 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,538 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,483 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,657 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,035 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,642 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,290 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maleigh, and how old are they?
An estimated 244 Americans named Maleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 217 people named Maleigh (214 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 198 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Maleigh rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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, Maleigh is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 134 babies (3.7%), again the third 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 Maleigh
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 Maleigh and names like it
- Compare Maleigh and MayleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaleigh peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Maleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.