Kaleigh

Where Kaleigh comes from

Variant of Kaylee.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kaleigh
Along the way
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #8,178 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Kaleigh Rafter born
    Canadian softball player
  3. 1992
    Kaleigh Gilchrist born
    American water polo player
  4. 2001
    Peak, #399
    729 babies named Kaleigh — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #793.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
  • Kaleigh Gilchrist · American water polo player, born 1992
  • Kaleigh Rafter · Canadian softball player, born 1986
  • Kaleigh Kurtz · American soccer player, born 1994
  • Kaleigh Riehl · American soccer player, born 1996
  • Kaleigh Quennec · Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, born 1998

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.