Meaning not yet researched.
Kaeleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,476 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,476 in 2001; #11,381 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaeleigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,381 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #2,476.
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Kaeleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,476 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 65 (2009).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Kaeleigh, making it the 11,381st most common girls’ name of the year, up 219 places from #11,600 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 girls named Kaeleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,476, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 65, in 2009. For comparison, it was #4,783 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaeleigh in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 5 babies. In all, 1,426 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 582 babies named Kaeleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 175 US girls were named Kaeleigh; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayleigh (34,568 babies since 1880), Kaleigh (16,250 babies since 1880), Caleigh (5,768 babies since 1880) and Kaileigh (2,774 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaeliegh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaeliegh (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kaeleigh in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,381 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,600 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,293 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,850 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,815 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,967 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,552 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,887 | — | — |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,783 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,599 | — | — |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,741 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,954 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,381 | — | — |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,767 | — | — |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,926 | — | — |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,905 | — | — |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,179 | — | — |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,057 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,312 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,080 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,636 | — | — |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,942 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,154 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,428 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).