Kileigh
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kileigh has been given to 661 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 2009, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Kileigh, 2018
1 in 271,000
Kileigh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kileigh?
Kileigh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 271,000
- 13 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 187,516 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kileigh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 187,516 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kileigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kileighs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kileigh was born before 2006 — so the typical Kileigh is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 53.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 661
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 53.9% of all recorded uses (356).
Is Kileigh 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (52)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kileigh
Kileigh is not the most common spelling — Leigh is, with 18.9% against Kileigh's 0.31%.
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 Kileigh is used
Across 1910–2025, Kileigh was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,113,111 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3Ohio1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Kileigh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kileigh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kileigh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kileigh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.