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Carleigh

#2,588 in 2025Girls' name

Free man, through Carly

Carleigh has been given to 6,114 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,588 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 280 recorded.

Babies named Carleigh, 2025

1 in 49,500

Carleigh over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Free man, through Carly

Germanic languages

What Carleigh means

Carleigh belongs to the name family reached through Carleigh → Carly → Carl → Charles. Its meaning is “free man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Carleigh is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carly, Carl and Charles.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,114 girls were recorded with the name Carleigh between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 280 in 2010; its best national rank was #925 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,770 in 2020 to #2,588 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,092 in 2015 to #2,588 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 49,500
67 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,588
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carleigh 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carleigh was born before 2008 — so the typical Carleigh is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,114
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (2,192).

Is Carleigh 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
+26
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−818
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,496
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.9%
Peak was 2010 (280)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#925
2010

Spellings of Carleigh

Carleigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 22.1% against Carleigh's 3.9%.

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 Carleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Carleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,887 girls, against 1 in 10,758 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

153 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,887
  2. 2Alabama1 in 2,857
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 3,704
  4. 4Georgia1 in 4,545
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 5,882
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 5,882
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 6,667
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 7,692

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.

Carleigh around the world

Where Carleigh 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
    1996–2013
    #4,739
    in 2013
  • Scotland
    2012–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2013–2014
    #661
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1998–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Carleigh

People whose public names include Carleigh, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carleigh in other languages

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

CarlyCarlie

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

Carleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,588
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 818
Best rank ever
#925
2010
Peak year
2010
280 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,114
Count in 2025
67

Names similar to Carleigh

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

CarolynnCarlottaCarolannCarolyneCarmelitaCarmellaMarleighHayleighHarleighBayleighKarleighBryleighHadleighCarriganOakleighCarlotaCarleneCarmelCaralineCarsonCarsynCarlynCarlettaRayleigh

Names with a curve like Carleigh

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

NatalyaHeidyKendylAshtynAnnalieseJocelynnKyndalKarisAnaliseKaylenKylahKyndall

Sibling names for Carleigh

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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