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Kayleigh

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Kayleigh is ranked 731st among girls in 2024 (385 births). Its best rank was 227th, in 2009.

Rank in 2024
#731down 100 from 2023
Births in 2024
3850.02% of girls
Peak year
20091,449 births
Best rank
#227in 2009
Since 1984
34,212people given the name
Babies named Kayleigh, by year of birthgirls
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

34,212 girls have been named Kayleigh in the United States since 1984, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 1,449 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 278 → 731).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 34%. It has spent 40 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)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Kayleigh
1980s2,677
1990s6,634
2000s11,769
2010s10,232
2020s2,900

In 2009, its biggest year

Kayleigh was the 227th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Kayleigh

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.