How rare is the name Caleigh?

4,890 people in the United States have the first name Caleigh, about 1 in 61,765. It ranks #3,980 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CALEIGH

#3,980

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,890
About
1 in 61,765
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,890 people named Caleigh, 78% reported their origin as White, 8.8% as Black and 5.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Caleigh peaked in 1999, when 322 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19842025
Peak year
1999
Births that year
322
In 2025*
44 ▼86%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,768 babies have been given the name since 1984. 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.

Caleigh by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,793. The largest share of babies named Caleigh, 63.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#7,681150
1990s#2,3201,248
2000s#1,7932,408
2010s#2,6321,548
2020s#4,519414
Millennials 1981–9612.3%
Generation Z 1997–1263.7%
2013 and later24%

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 Caleigh is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Caleigh has been most common in Massachusetts (2.1×), North Carolina (1.9×), and Virginia (1.8×), and least common in Oklahoma (0.6×).

3,872 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.

Exactly as common as Caleigh

1 other first name also has 4,890 people.

#3,980 Torrey · 4,890

Either side of Caleigh

#3,978 Meena · 4,894#3,979 Everette · 4,891#3,980 Torrey · 4,890#3,982 Uma · 4,889

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Caleigh, most common first.

#7,731 Calleigh · 1,941#8,146 Cayleigh · 1,796#12,458 Caileigh · 999#36,633 Caeleigh · 216

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