Baleigh
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 98 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,901since 1988
Baleigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Baleigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 |
| 2020 | #3,915 | 36 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 |
| 2017 | #2,903 | 57 |
| 2016 | #3,229 | 50 |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 61 |
| 2012 | #3,419 | 47 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 |
| 2010 | #2,493 | 74 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 |
| 2008 | #2,718 | 67 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 |
| 2006 | #2,850 | 61 |
| 2005 | #2,482 | 70 |
| 2004 | #2,711 | 60 |
| 2003 | #2,413 | 68 |
| 2002 | #2,018 | 86 |
| 2001 | #1,872 | 93 |
| 2000 | #1,985 | 84 |
| 1999 | #1,678 | 98 |
| 1998 | #1,690 | 94 |
| 1997 | #1,927 | 75 |
| 1996 | #2,314 | 57 |
| 1995 | #2,028 | 67 |
| 1994 | #3,372 | 33 |
| 1993 | #3,290 | 34 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Baleigh! It came in at #11,798, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1989, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Baleigh is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#425 · 1 in 1,681
- Alabama#694 · 1 in 3,336
- Louisiana#712 · 1 in 3,442
- Indiana#942 · 1 in 5,283
- Georgia#1,360 · 1 in 8,454
Best ever in a state: #256 in Mississippi, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #425 | 7 | 1 in 1,681 |
| Alabama | #694 | 6 | 1 in 3,336 |
| Louisiana | #712 | 6 | 1 in 3,442 |
| Indiana | #942 | 6 | 1 in 5,283 |
| Georgia | #1,360 | 6 | 1 in 8,454 |
| Texas | #2,309 | 8 | 1 in 20,834 |
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See more about Baleigh
- 768 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,362)
- 4,447 spots since 2020 (#3,915 → #8,362)
- 4,712 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #8,362)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 1999 at #1,678 (98 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,100 girls born in 1999 were named Baleigh (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.8% of all girls named Baleigh (738) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 12 | #9,681 (1989) | #10,740 |
| 1990s | 513 | #1,678 (1999) | #3,193 |
| 2000s | 738 | #1,872 (2001) | #2,405 |
| 2010s | 519 | #2,493 (2010) | #3,239 |
| 2020s | 119 | #3,915 (2020) | #6,443 |
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.
Baleigh in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 25,515 of them was named Baleigh, which outranked 87.3% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,548Sanya73
- #2,548Tatiyana73
- #2,548Tayah73
- #2,568Baleigh72
- #2,568Amiracle72
- #2,568Aysha72
- #2,568Briar72
- #2,592Ailin71
- #2,592Akshara71
- #2,592Arianne71
Tied with 23 names at #2,568; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.