first name
ALEIGHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 3,584 people named Aleigha, 64.9% reported their origin as White, 12.1% as two or more races and 11.3% as Black. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Aleigha peaked in 2012, when 317 babies got the name.
At least 4,867 babies have been given the name since 1981. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Aleigha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #2,058. The largest share of babies named Aleigha, 54%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Aleigha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Aleigha has been most common in Tennessee (3.1×), Kentucky (3.1×), and North Carolina (2.2×), and least common in California (0.32×).
3,028 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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