Shaleigh — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shaleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 368 babies named Shaleigh between 1987 and 2016, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaleigh currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 21 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaleigh performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 157 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shaleigh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shaleigh in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaleigh 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 368 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.