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Keeleigh

#14,060 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Keely

Keeleigh has been given to 426 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #14,060 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Keeleigh, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keeleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Keely

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keeleigh means

Keeleigh is a variant of Keely.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Keeleigh is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈki.li/ for Keeleigh.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Keeleigh → Keely → Keeley. The family’s meaning is “descendant of Caollaidhe”, recorded in English with the source elements Caollaidhe.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keely.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 426 girls were recorded with the name Keeleigh between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2008; its best national rank was #4,589 in 2008.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,222 in 2015 to #14,060 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 Keeleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,060
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keeleigh 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keeleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keeleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keeleigh was born before 2009 — so the typical Keeleigh is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
426
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.9% of all recorded uses (187).

Is Keeleigh 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
+2,412
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,838
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.2%
Peak was 2008 (33)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,589
2008

Spellings of Keeleigh

Keeleigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 36.4% against Keeleigh's 0.45%.

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 Keeleigh is used

Across 1910–2025, Keeleigh was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,228,092 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

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. Keeleigh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keeleigh around the world

Where Keeleigh 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
    1996–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2000–2009
    #535
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Keeleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,060
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,589
2008
Peak year
2008
33 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
426
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Keeleigh

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

RenleighHenleighTayleighBexleighBreleighWesleighJaeleighBraleighTinleighRhyleighEvaleighKalleighSkyleighLynleighRynleighRaileighTenleighHazleighKhyleighMaeleighMayleighTyleighKinzleighZayleigh

Sibling names for Keeleigh

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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