girls:
1.9k births since 1988
#3921 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1988
#5886 (24th percentile)
The name Baleigh is the #5,886 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,874 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 23.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,921 (31.4% percentile) for all time with 1,874 births since 1988.
Baleigh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (first recorded for girls in 1988).
For girls, Baleigh reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 10.5% percentile (ranked #793) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 50 births per million (ranked 10.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Baleigh ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 18.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Baleigh".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Baleigh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.4% confident that Baleigh is pronounced as BAY-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is buh-LEEGH, at 11.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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