Kaileigh
#5,155 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaileigh has been given to 2,774 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #5,155 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 124 recorded.
Babies named Kaileigh, 2025
1 in 133,000
Kaileigh over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kaileigh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 133,000
- 25 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 64,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,155
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 91,917 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaileigh sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaileigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaileighs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaileigh was born before 2006 — so the typical Kaileigh is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,774
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (1,058).
Is Kaileigh 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
- +881
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,346
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,809
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.32×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.2%
- Peak was 2004 (124)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.0% average annual change
Spellings of Kaileigh
Kaileigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 18.6% against Kaileigh's 1.5%.
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 Kaileigh is used
Across 1910–2025, Kaileigh was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 142,576 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 50,000
- 2Texas1 in 50,000
- 3Alabama1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in 100,000
- 5Florida1 in 100,000
- 6Georgia1 in 100,000
- 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 8Michigan1 in 100,000
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. Kaileigh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kaileigh around the world
Where Kaileigh 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 & Wales1996–2015#5,730in 2015
- Scotland1988–1988#447in 1988
- Northern Ireland2011–2011#444in 2011
- Ireland2005–2005#587in 2005
- Canada1991–2015#3,185in 2015
- South Australia1989–2006#782in 2006
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.
Kaileigh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaileigh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kaileigh
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaileigh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kaileigh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.