girls:
16.1k births since 1980
#1182 (79th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 2004
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
16.1k births since 1980
#2043 (74th percentile)
The name Kaleigh is the #2,043 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,128 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 73.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,182 (79.3% percentile) for all time with 16,122 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2004.
Kaleigh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for girls and 2004 for boys).
The name Kaleigh has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kaleigh reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 58.4% percentile (ranked #374) with 368 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 368 births per million (ranked 58.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kaleigh ranks #874 for girls (7.7% percentile) with 45 births per million, which is 12.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kaleigh reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #846) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaleigh".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kaleigh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.6% confident that Kaleigh is pronounced as KAY-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-LEE, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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