Baleigh

#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births

Peak · girls
1999 · 98 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,901
since 1988

Baleigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Baleigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202013peak #1,678, 1999girls
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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#8,36212
2024#7,59414
2023#6,92216
2022#6,46418
2021#5,39823
2020#3,91536
2019#4,43731
2018#3,43845
2017#2,90357
2016#3,22950
2015#3,65042
2014#2,92258
2013#2,80461
2012#3,41947
2011#3,09254
2010#2,49374
2009#2,56872
2008#2,71867
2007#2,43377
2006#2,85061
2005#2,48270
2004#2,71160
2003#2,41368
2002#2,01886
2001#1,87293
2000#1,98584
1999#1,67898
1998#1,69094
1997#1,92775
1996#2,31457
1995#2,02867
1994#3,37233
1993#3,29034
1992#4,84920
1991#4,65021
1990#6,13114
1989#9,6817
1988#11,7985
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First appearance
1988

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.

See more about Baleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1988
  • Peaked 1999 at #1,678 (98 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 13 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 18,100
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 38.8% of all girls named Baleigh (738) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s12#9,681 (1989)#10,740
1990s513#1,678 (1999)#3,193
2000s738#1,872 (2001)#2,405
2010s519#2,493 (2010)#3,239
2020s119#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 2013

girls
#2,804
61 births · 1 in 28,766 girls

Top girls' names in 2013

  1. #1Sophia21,255
  2. #2Emma20,973
  3. #3Olivia18,454
  4. #4Isabella17,689
  5. #5Ava15,271
  6. #6Mia13,166
  7. #7Emily13,144
  8. #8Abigail12,429
  9. #9Madison10,605
  10. #10Elizabeth9,476
  11. #2,804Baleigh61
More about 2013

girls

1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 28,766 of them was named Baleigh, which outranked 85.5% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Baleigh
  1. #2,769Rahma62
  2. #2,769Raylin62
  3. #2,769Shylah62
  4. #2,804Baleigh61
  5. #2,804Alysha61
  6. #2,804Angelika61
  7. #2,804Beautiful61
  8. #2,837Ailin60
  9. #2,837Alliana60
  10. #2,837Aly60

Tied with 32 names at #2,804; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2012
Risers
  1. 3,124Daleyza#3,711#587
  2. 736Marjorie#1,646#910
  3. 683Lennon#1,612#929
  4. 561Jurnee#1,457#896
  5. 539Everleigh#1,405#866
Fallers
  1. 827Litzy#598#1,425
  2. 409Geraldine#994#1,403
  3. 384Taraji#858#1,242
  4. 374Marisa#977#1,351
  5. 372Adley#733#1,105

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

See the top 100 for 2013