How Many People Are Named Kaleigh?
people named Kaleigh are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 21,321 people in the US has this name
Based on 16,250 babies named Kaleigh in Social Security records from 1980 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
729 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of KAYLEIGH.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Kaleigh in English. Counting Kaleigh and these spellings together, about 278,607 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Kaleigh in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Kaleigh alive today is about 23 years old, and 73% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 30 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Kaleigh first appears in the records in 1980 and was given most often in 2001, to 729 babies. In 2025, 56 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1980 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Kaleigh has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #399, in 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,973.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,973 |
| Best rank | #399 (2001) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #481 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Kaleigh alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Kaleigh were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,385 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kaleigh was given 3.3 times as often in Mississippi, 2.5 times in Alabama and 2.3 times in Louisiana.
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