Aaleigha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aaleigha has been given to 183 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Aaleigha, 2022
1 in 564,000
Aaleigha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Aaleigha?
Aaleigha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 273,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aaleigha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aaleigha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aaleighas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aaleigha was born before 2011 — so the typical Aaleigha is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 183
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (89).
Is Aaleigha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2012 (21)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.5% average annual change
Spellings of Aaleigha
Aaleigha is not the most common spelling — Kaleigh is, with 23.9% against Aaleigha's 0.27%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Aaleigha around the world
Where Aaleigha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2007–2013#5,742in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Aaleigha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aaleigha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aaleigha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.