girls:
5k births since 1989
#2396 (58th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2021
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
5k births since 1989
#3866 (50th percentile)
The name Harleigh is the #3,866 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,984 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 50.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,396 (58.1% percentile) for all time with 4,979 births since 1989. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2021.
Harleigh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for girls and 2021 for boys).
The name Harleigh has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Harleigh reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 31.3% percentile (ranked #661) with 166 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 166 births per million (ranked 31.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Harleigh ranks #770 for girls (18.7% percentile) with 104 births per million, which is 62.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Harleigh reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #930) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harleigh".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Harleigh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Harleigh is pronounced as HAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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