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Kyleigh

#1,202 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kylie

Kyleigh has been given to 20,199 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,202 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 1,172 recorded.

Babies named Kyleigh, 2025

1 in 17,400

Kyleigh over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kyleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kylie

surname transfer

What Kyleigh means

Kyleigh is a variant of Kylie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kyleigh → Kylie. The family’s proposed meaning is “boomerang”, recorded in English with the source elements kylie.

Origin, language, and formation

Kyleigh is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Kyleigh is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kylie and Kaylee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20,193 girls were recorded with the name Kyleigh between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,172 in 2011; its best national rank was #272 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #833 in 2020 to #1,202 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #383 in 2015 to #1,202 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Kyleigh between 2004 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2004; its best national rank was #10,768 in 2004.

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 Kyleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,400
190 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,460
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,202
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,095 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kyleigh 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,095 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kyleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kyleighs were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
20,193
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (8,293).

Is Kyleigh 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
−129
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−369
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−819
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.22×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.2%
Peak was 2011 (1,172)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#272
2011

Spellings of Kyleigh

Kyleigh is not the most common spelling — Leigh is, with 17.5% against Kyleigh's 8.8%.

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 Kyleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Kyleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 649 girls, against 1 in 4,119 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

3154 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 649
  2. 2Alabama1 in 909
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 1,163
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 1,220
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 1,316
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 1,563
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 1,667
  8. 8Georgia1 in 1,786

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.

Geographically, Kyleigh is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 97% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kyleigh around the world

Where Kyleigh 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.

  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kyleigh in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kyleigh. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kylee

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kyleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,202
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 369
Best rank ever
#272
2011
Peak year
2011
1,172 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
20,193
Count in 2025
190

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,768
2004
Peak year
2004
6 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kyleigh

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

KaleighHaleighRyleighKyleeAshleighCaleighKayleighKylahEverleighRileighKylaKyleRaleighCarleighMarleighHayleighKylieHarleighBayleighKarleighLeighBryleighKylynnHadleigh

Names with a curve like Kyleigh

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

JaydaAshlynnMadisynKaelynKailynJaelynAryannaJaylynnMyahLexiCayleeJoselyn

Sibling names for Kyleigh

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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