Meaning not yet researched.
Kaileigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,587 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,587 in 2004; #5,156 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaileigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,156 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #1,587.
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Kaileigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,587 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 124 (2004).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Kaileigh, making it the 5,156th most common girls’ name of the year, up 883 places from #6,039 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 20 girls named Kaileigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,587, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 124. For comparison, it was #2,346 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaileigh in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 8 babies. In all, 2,774 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,058 babies named Kaileigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 403 US girls were named Kaileigh; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 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 Cayleigh (2,297 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kaileigh 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 | 25 | #5,156 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,039 | — | — |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,605 | — | — |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,922 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,158 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 2015 | 79 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 2009 | 101 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 2004 | 124 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,902 | — | — |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,566 | — | — |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,225 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,892 | — | — |
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).