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Haleigh

#4,390 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Hayley

Haleigh has been given to 14,293 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #4,390 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 789 recorded.

Babies named Haleigh, 2025

1 in 104,000

Haleigh over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Hayley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haleigh means

Haleigh is a variant of Hayley.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Haleigh → Hayley. The family’s meaning is “hay + wood, clearing”, recorded in English with the source elements hēg and lēah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hayley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,284 girls were recorded with the name Haleigh between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 789 in 2000; its best national rank was #372 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,246 in 2020 to #4,390 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,230 in 2015 to #4,390 in 2025.

In the United States, 9 boys were recorded with the name Haleigh between 2004 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2004; its best national rank was #7,751 in 2004.

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 Haleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,390
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haleigh 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haleigh was born before 2002 — so the typical Haleigh is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,284
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (6,037).

Is Haleigh 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
−155
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,144
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,160
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.16×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.1%
Peak was 2000 (789)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#372
2000

Spellings of Haleigh

Haleigh is not the most common spelling — Leigh is, with 14.6% against Haleigh's 5.2%.

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 Haleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Haleigh was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 22,266 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 5,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 5,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 9,091
  4. 4Georgia1 in 10,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 10,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 11,111
  7. 7Virginia1 in 12,500
  8. 8Ohio1 in 16,667

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.

Haleigh around the world

Where Haleigh 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1992–1994
    #629
    in 1994
  • Ireland
    1997–1998
    #498
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,029
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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 Haleigh

People whose public names include Haleigh, 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.

Haleigh in other languages

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

Hayleigh

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

Haleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,390
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,144
Best rank ever
#372
2000
Peak year
2000
789 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,284
Count in 2025
32

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,751
2004
Peak year
2004
9 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
9
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Haleigh

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

KaleighKyleighHalleHallieHalleyHalleighRyleighHalieCaleighRileighHalimaRaleighAshleighCarleighMarleighKayleighHayleighHalstonHarleighBayleighHalleeKarleighBryleighEverleigh

Names with a curve like Haleigh

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

KaitlynnBryannaYasmineCheyanneDestineeKierstenSavanahSydneeMckaylaKaylynCarlieKayley

Sibling names for Haleigh

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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