Aleigha
#3,067 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aleigha has been given to 4,867 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,067 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 317 recorded.
Babies named Aleigha, 2025
1 in 62,600
Aleigha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Aleigha?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 62,600
- 53 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 30,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,067
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 43,358 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aleigha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleigha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aleighas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleigha was born before 2010 — so the typical Aleigha is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,867
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (2,208).
Is Aleigha 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
- −456
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,143
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,920
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.24×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 16.7%
- Peak was 2012 (317)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.9% average annual change
Spellings of Aleigha
Aleigha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 29.5% against Aleigha's 2.5%.
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.
Where Aleigha is used
Across 2016–2025, Aleigha was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 18,329 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Aleigha around the world
Where Aleigha 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 & Wales1996–2024#5,892in 2024
- Scotland2014–2021#558in 2021
- Northern Ireland2017–2017#432in 2017
- Ireland2013–2025#885in 2025
- Canada1991–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia2009–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Aleigha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aleigha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Aleigha
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aleigha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Aleigha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.