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Kaleigh

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Kaleigh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 61 births. Its best rank was 399th, in 2001.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
610.00% of girls
Peak year
2001729 births
Best rank
#399in 2001
Since 1980
16,184people given the name
Babies named Kaleigh, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

16,184 girls have been named Kaleigh in the United States since 1980, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 729 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 39%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Kaleigh
1980s1,397
1990s5,270
2000s6,286
2010s2,785
2020s446

In 2001, its biggest year

Kaleigh was the 399th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.

Names that rose and fell with Kaleigh

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.