Meaning not yet researched.
Maleigha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,898 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,898 in 2009; #6,038 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maleigha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,038 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,898.
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Maleigha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,898 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 111 (2009).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Maleigha, making it the 6,038th most common girls’ name of the year, down 649 places from #5,389 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 24 girls named Maleigha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,898, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 111. For comparison, it was #2,542 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maleigha in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 6 babies. In all, 1,482 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 692 babies named Maleigha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 456 US girls were named Maleigha; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maliha (1,424 babies since 1880), Maleia (1,187 babies since 1880), Mayleigh (892 babies since 1880) and Maeleigh (883 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maileigh 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: Maileigh (18).
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 Maleigha 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 | 20 | #6,038 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,389 | — | — |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,179 | — | — |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,540 | — | — |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,271 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,142 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,733 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,254 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,083 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,144 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,151 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,234 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,823 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,844 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,715 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,469 | — | — |
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).