Meaning not yet researched.
Kayleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 340 in 2025. Its best rank was #227 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #227 in 2009; #804 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kayleigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#804 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #227.
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Kayleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 340 girls in 2025. Peak: #227 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 1,450 (2009).
In 2025, 340 US girls were named Kayleigh, making it the 804th most common girls’ name of the year, down 73 places from #731 in 2024. That is 46 fewer than the 386 girls named Kayleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #227, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,450. For comparison, it was #324 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayleigh in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 7 babies. In all, 34,568 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 11,777 babies named Kayleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,352 US girls were named Kayleigh; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 958. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kayleigh ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #228 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayla (347,144 babies since 1880), Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Caylee (9,769 babies since 1880) and Kaleigh (16,250 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kalleigh, Kayliegh and Kaleiah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kalleigh (672), Kayliegh (370), Kaleiah (277), Kayliah (265), Caeleigh (226), Kayeleigh (60), Kayleigha (44), Kaileigha (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 Kayleigh 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 12 | #228 | #86 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #282 | #205 |
| Alabama | 13 | #381 | #136 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #403 | #134 |
| North Carolina | 21 | #524 | #191 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #549 | #257 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #670 | #354 |
| Florida | 25 | #682 | #312 |
| Virginia | 11 | #683 | #200 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #699 | #221 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #727 | #122 |
| Georgia | 14 | #729 | #192 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #778 | #448 |
| Maryland | 6 | #784 | #300 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #823 | #334 |
| Illinois | 11 | #831 | #408 |
| New York | 19 | #844 | #369 |
| Indiana | 7 | #868 | #308 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #890 | #301 |
| Texas | 32 | #906 | #384 |
| Arizona | 6 | #974 | #379 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,005 | #253 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,083 | #306 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,140 | #376 |
| California | 18 | #1,340 | #753 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 340 | #804 | — | — |
| 2024 | 386 | #731 | — | — |
| 2023 | 469 | #631 | — | — |
| 2022 | 590 | #529 | — | — |
| 2021 | 754 | #418 | — | — |
| 2020 | 706 | #435 | — | — |
| 2019 | 644 | #488 | — | — |
| 2018 | 707 | #451 | — | — |
| 2017 | 798 | #391 | — | — |
| 2016 | 958 | #348 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,008 | #324 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,174 | #278 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,135 | #279 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,227 | #265 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,286 | #246 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,298 | #244 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,450 | #227 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,435 | #239 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,396 | #250 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,230 | #266 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,234 | #266 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,161 | #285 | 7 | #9,465 |
| 2003 | 1,072 | #290 | — | — |
| 2002 | 945 | #324 | — | — |
| 2001 | 962 | #321 | — | — |
| 2000 | 885 | #349 | — | — |
| 1999 | 818 | #363 | — | — |
| 1998 | 793 | #364 | — | — |
| 1997 | 690 | #383 | — | — |
| 1996 | 633 | #411 | — | — |
| 1995 | 598 | #432 | — | — |
| 1994 | 576 | #437 | — | — |
| 1993 | 621 | #402 | — | — |
| 1992 | 627 | #407 | — | — |
| 1991 | 658 | #390 | — | — |
| 1990 | 620 | #414 | — | — |
| 1989 | 609 | #407 | — | — |
| 1988 | 565 | #415 | — | — |
| 1987 | 537 | #416 | — | — |
| 1986 | 748 | #321 | — | — |
| 1985 | 211 | #794 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,598 | — | — |
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).