Maeleigh
#3,055 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maeleigh has been given to 883 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #3,055 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 65 recorded.
Babies named Maeleigh, 2025
1 in 61,400
Maeleigh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maeleigh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 61,400
- 54 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 29,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,055
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 42,555 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maeleigh 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maeleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maeleighs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maeleigh was born before 2017 — so the typical Maeleigh is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 883
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (469).
Is Maeleigh 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
- +260
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +422
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +143
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.04×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 83.1%
- Peak was 2016 (65)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maeleigh
Maeleigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 22.9% against Maeleigh's 0.58%.
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 Maeleigh is used
Across 2016–2025, Maeleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 27,933 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 9,091
- 2Tennessee1 in 10,000
- 3Alabama1 in 11,111
- 4Georgia1 in 16,667
- 5Kentucky1 in 16,667
- 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7Ohio1 in 33,333
- 8Oklahoma1 in 33,333
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.
Maeleigh around the world
Where Maeleigh 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 & Wales2011–2011#5,785in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Maeleigh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maeleigh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maeleigh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.