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Harleigh

#1,534 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Harley

Harleigh has been given to 5,277 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #1,534 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 312 recorded.

Babies named Harleigh, 2025

1 in 24,000

Harleigh over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Harley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Harleigh means

Harleigh is a variant of Harley.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Harleigh → Harley. The family’s meaning is “rock”, recorded in English with the source elements hær.

Origin, language, and formation

Harleigh is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Harley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,272 girls were recorded with the name Harleigh between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 312 in 2017; its best national rank was #875 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #992 in 2020 to #1,534 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,051 in 2015 to #1,534 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Harleigh between 2021 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2021; its best national rank was #12,801 in 2021.

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 Harleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,000
138 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,534
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,653 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harleigh 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,653 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harleigh was born before 2014 — so the typical Harleigh is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,272
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (2,391).

Is Harleigh 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
−542
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−483
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.2%
Peak was 2017 (312)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#875
2018

Spellings of Harleigh

Harleigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 22.0% against Harleigh's 3.4%.

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 Harleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Harleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,042 girls, against 1 in 6,335 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

296 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,042
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,408
  3. 3Alabama1 in 1,563
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 1,587
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 2,500
  6. 6Georgia1 in 3,226
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 3,571
  8. 8Maryland1 in 4,545

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.

Harleigh around the world

Where Harleigh 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
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2017
    #355
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2017–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #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.

Harleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,534
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 542
Best rank ever
#875
2018
Peak year
2017
312 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,272
Count in 2025
138

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,801
2021
Peak year
2021
5 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harleigh

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

HartleighHarmonieHarmoniHarrietteBayleighKarleighHayleighHarmoneeBryleighMarleighCarleighHarriettHadleighOakleighHartleyHarlieRayleighKaileighHarleeBaileighHarleenRaeleighHarmoniiCayleigh

Names with a curve like Harleigh

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

HeavenlyJurneeLandryAustynHarleeHonestyMontserratAmiaViviannaAminahSkylynnAliah

Sibling names for Harleigh

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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