Meaning not yet researched.
Kaleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #399 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #399 in 2001; #2,973 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaleigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,973 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #399.
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Kaleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #399 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 729 (2001).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Kaleigh, making it the 2,973rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 215 places from #2,758 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 62 girls named Kaleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #399, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 729. For comparison, it was #1,052 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaleigh in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 7 babies. In all, 16,250 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,292 babies named Kaleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,184 US girls were named Kaleigh; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 183. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaleigh ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #766 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayleigh (34,568 babies since 1880), Caleigh (5,768 babies since 1880), Kaleah (4,439 babies since 1880) and Kaileigh (2,774 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaleyah, Kaliegh and Caleigha 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: Kaleyah (579), Kaliegh (416), Caleigha (193), Kaleeah (151), Kalyiah (122), Kaleiyah (114), Kaleiya (92), Caleiah (5).
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 Kaleigh in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 6 | #766 | #342 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,566 | #691 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,658 | #454 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,515 | #1,340 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 2018 | 171 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 2017 | 174 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 2016 | 183 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 2015 | 251 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 2014 | 303 | #896 | — | — |
| 2013 | 305 | #852 | — | — |
| 2012 | 337 | #796 | — | — |
| 2011 | 408 | #690 | — | — |
| 2010 | 503 | #584 | — | — |
| 2009 | 479 | #628 | — | — |
| 2008 | 534 | #578 | — | — |
| 2007 | 571 | #543 | — | — |
| 2006 | 636 | #489 | — | — |
| 2005 | 675 | #451 | — | — |
| 2004 | 641 | #463 | 6 | #10,660 |
| 2003 | 668 | #450 | — | — |
| 2002 | 670 | #434 | — | — |
| 2001 | 729 | #399 | — | — |
| 2000 | 683 | #415 | — | — |
| 1999 | 647 | #427 | — | — |
| 1998 | 625 | #423 | — | — |
| 1997 | 538 | #464 | — | — |
| 1996 | 499 | #482 | — | — |
| 1995 | 515 | #481 | — | — |
| 1994 | 520 | #481 | — | — |
| 1993 | 463 | #525 | — | — |
| 1992 | 577 | #435 | — | — |
| 1991 | 438 | #533 | — | — |
| 1990 | 448 | #530 | — | — |
| 1989 | 349 | #608 | — | — |
| 1988 | 326 | #613 | — | — |
| 1987 | 290 | #650 | — | — |
| 1986 | 288 | #642 | — | — |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,457 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,772 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,635 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,713 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,544 | — | — |
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).