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Charleigh

#811 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Charlie

Charleigh has been given to 9,455 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #811 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 738 recorded.

Babies named Charleigh, 2025

1 in 9,840

Charleigh over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Charlie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charleigh means

Charleigh is a variant of Charlie.

Origin, language, and formation

Charleigh is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,455 girls were recorded with the name Charleigh between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 738 in 2019; its best national rank was #433 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #477 in 2020 to #811 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #530 in 2015 to #811 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 Charleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,840
337 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,770
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#811
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,820 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charleigh 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,820 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charleigh was born before 2017 — so the typical Charleigh is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,455
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (5,401).

Is Charleigh 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
−49
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−334
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−281
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.7%
Peak was 2019 (738)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#433
2019

Spellings of Charleigh

Charleigh is not the most common spelling — Haleigh is, with 20.1% against Charleigh's 13.3%.

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 Charleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Charleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 474 girls, against 1 in 2,404 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 12,500).

8211 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 474
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 671
  3. 3Alabama1 in 699
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 952
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 962
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 990
  7. 7Georgia1 in 1,064
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 1,111

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.

Geographically, Charleigh is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 88% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Charleigh around the world

Where Charleigh 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2012–2018
    #896
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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.

Charleigh in other languages

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

Charley

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

Charleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#811
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 334
Best rank ever
#433
2019
Peak year
2019
738 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,455
Count in 2025
337

Names similar to Charleigh

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

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Names with a curve like Charleigh

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

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Sibling names for Charleigh

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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