Aleigh

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births

Peak · girls
2012 · 36 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
668
since 1987

Aleigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Aleigh has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202012peak #4,121, 2012girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#14,9425
2024#12,1617
2023#11,1698
2022#9,05611
2021#8,97811
2020#10,2509
2019#7,71614
2018#9,15111
2017#7,44215
2016#9,41111
2015#5,83322
2014#5,31025
2013#5,31725
2012#4,12136
2011#4,15135
2010#4,30634
2009#4,93129
2008#5,14228
2007#4,67531
2006#4,81129
2005#4,82827
2004#4,49230
2003#4,66827
2002#7,04515
2001#5,36421
2000#4,40027
1999#7,23913
1998#7,10413
1997#4,81921
1996#6,39214
1995#7,51411
1994#6,67213
1993#9,5598
1992#8,7349
1991#13,1475
1990#11,4096
1989#9,6817
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First appearance
1987

The first year at least five girls were named Aleigh! It came in at #11,325, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 2,781 spots since 2024 (#12,161#14,942)
  • 4,692 spots since 2020 (#10,250#14,942)
  • 9,109 spots since 2015 (#5,833#14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1987
  • Peaked 2012 at #4,121 (36 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 48,918
  • Highest: 1 in 48,918 girls born in 2012 were named Aleigh (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 39.5% of all girls named Aleigh (264) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s12#9,681 (1989)#10,503
1990s113#4,819 (1997)#8,259
2000s264#4,400 (2000)#5,036
2010s228#4,121 (2012)#6,276
2020s51#8,978 (2021)#11,093

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aleigh in 2012

girls
#4,121
36 births · 1 in 48,918 girls

Top girls' names in 2012

  1. #1Sophia22,336
  2. #2Emma20,976
  3. #3Isabella19,138
  4. #4Olivia17,333
  5. #5Ava15,549
  6. #6Emily13,666
  7. #7Abigail12,730
  8. #8Mia12,039
  9. #9Madison11,417
  10. #10Elizabeth9,730
  11. #4,121Aleigh36
More about 2012

girls

1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 48,918 of them was named Aleigh, which outranked 78.9% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aleigh
  1. #4,047Yatzil37
  2. #4,047Yeimi37
  3. #4,047Zaynah37
  4. #4,121Aleigh36
  5. #4,121Aili36
  6. #4,121Akyra36
  7. #4,121Alizah36
  8. #4,216Adalena35
  9. #4,216Aleana35
  10. #4,216Amaree35

Tied with 94 names at #4,121; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2011
Risers
  1. 4,327Cataleya#4,807#480
  2. 1,931Adley#2,664#733
  3. 917Litzy#1,515#598
  4. 784Kenia#1,427#643
  5. 580Monroe#1,531#951
Fallers
  1. 429Jaden#979#1,408
  2. 365Payten#994#1,359
  3. 326Yamilet#925#1,251
  4. 316Shaniya#915#1,231
  5. 264Shania#898#1,162

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2012