Keleigh
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keleigh has been given to 799 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 34 recorded.
Babies named Keleigh, 2024
1 in 418,000
Keleigh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keleigh?
Keleigh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 203,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keleigh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keleighs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keleigh was born before 1997 — so the typical Keleigh is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 27.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 799
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (217).
Is Keleigh 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1991 (34)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.3% average annual change
Spellings of Keleigh
Keleigh is not the most common spelling — Leigh is, with 19.4% against Keleigh's 0.39%.
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 Keleigh is used
Across 1910–2025, Keleigh was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 532,053 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Keleigh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keleigh around the world
Where Keleigh 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 & Wales1996–2010#5,707in 2010
- Ireland1996–1996#534in 1996
- Canada1992–1992#2,433in 1992
- South Australia1966–1996#712in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Keleigh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keleigh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keleigh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.