Haleigh

Where Haleigh comes from

Haleigh hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #9,750 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Haleigh Washington born
    American indoor volleyball player
  3. 1996
    Haleigh Mana'o born
    American Samoan soccer player
  4. 2000
    Peak, #372
    789 babies named Haleigh — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #777.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Haleigh Washington · American indoor volleyball player, born 1995
  • Haleigh Mana'o · American Samoan soccer player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.