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Caleigh

#3,473 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kayleigh

Caleigh has been given to 5,768 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #3,473 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 322 recorded.

Babies named Caleigh, 2025

1 in 75,300

Caleigh over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kayleigh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caleigh means

Caleigh is a variant of Kayleigh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kayleigh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,768 girls were recorded with the name Caleigh between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 322 in 1999; its best national rank was #702 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,083 in 2020 to #3,473 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,259 in 2015 to #3,473 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Caleigh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 36,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,473
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caleigh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caleigh was born before 2006 — so the typical Caleigh is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,768
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (2,408).

Is Caleigh 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
−776
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,390
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,214
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.7%
Peak was 1999 (322)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#702
1999

Spellings of Caleigh

Caleigh is not the most common spelling — Leigh is, with 14.6% against Caleigh's 2.1%.

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 Caleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Caleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 25,478 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 4,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 6,667
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Georgia1 in 16,667
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 16,667
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 20,000

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.

Caleigh around the world

Where Caleigh 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 & Wales
    1998–2022
    #3,971
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1994–2010
    #802
    in 2010
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2008
    #439
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Caleigh in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Caleigh. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kaylee

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Caleigh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,473
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,390
Best rank ever
#702
1999
Peak year
1999
322 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,768
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Caleigh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CalleighCalistaCalliopeCaliyahCallistaRileighCalliCallaCalianaCalissaRaleighHayleighMarleighCarleighHarleighBayleighCallanKarleighHaleighBryleighHadleighKaleighCalvinOakleigh

Names with a curve like Caleigh

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Caleigh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AbigaleShayleeDeasiaKaylahEstefanyNyasiaMaiyaAbagailAshtynTaylaJaceyJaycie

Sibling names for Caleigh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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