How Many People Are Named Haleigh?

14,110

people named Haleigh are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 24,222 people in the US has this name

Based on 14,293 babies named Haleigh in Social Security records from 1978 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,981

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,080

See the top 100

Peak Year

2000

789 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: HAY-lee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of HAYLEY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Haleigh in English. Counting Haleigh and these spellings together, about 470,187 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Haleigh (99.9%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Haleigh alive today is about 23 years old, and 79% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 29 in 2025.

Under 30 11,131
78.9%
30 to 59 2,979
21.1%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Haleigh first appears in the records in 1978 and was given most often in 2000, to 789 babies. In 2025, 32 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1978 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Haleigh has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #372, in 2000. In 2025 it ranked #4,390.

Girls
Rank in 2025#4,390
Best rank#372 (2000)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#497 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Haleigh alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Haleigh were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,324 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Haleigh was given 3.8 times as often in West Virginia, 3.6 times in Alabama and 3.4 times in Mississippi.

Texas 1,324
Florida 767
Georgia 714
North Carolina 672
Ohio 665
Alabama 596
California 571
Virginia 483
Tennessee 482
Michigan 472
Indiana 467
Louisiana 416
Illinois 414
Kentucky 410
Pennsylvania 356
New York 356
Mississippi 334
Missouri 314
South Carolina 313
Massachusetts 258
West Virginia 229
Oklahoma 183
Arkansas 173
Kansas 154
Arizona 149
Colorado 148
Maryland 141
Iowa 138
New Jersey 127
Washington 107
Wisconsin 85
Oregon 73
Nebraska 68
Utah 48
New Hampshire 43
New Mexico 41
Minnesota 32
Connecticut 23
Nevada 21
North Dakota 10
South Dakota 10
Maine 10
Rhode Island 10
Vermont 5
Idaho 5

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