How rare is the name Carleigh?

5,021 people in the United States have the first name Carleigh, about 1 in 60,154. It ranks #3,898 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CARLEIGH

#3,898

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,021
About
1 in 60,154
This common or more
83.2%
Who bears it

Of the 5,021 people named Carleigh, 81.9% reported their origin as White, 8.2% as Black and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Carleigh peaked in 2010, when 280 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19752025
Peak year
2010
Births that year
280
In 2025*
67 ▼76%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,114 babies have been given the name since 1975. 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.

Carleigh by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,987. The largest share of babies named Carleigh, 54.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#16,48022
1980s#5,945221
1990s#2,6071,047
2000s#1,9872,099
2010s#2,0692,192
2020s#3,853533
Generation X 1965–800.5%
Millennials 1981–9613.6%
Generation Z 1997–1254.6%
2013 and later31.3%

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 Carleigh is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Carleigh has been most common in Virginia (3.5×), Mississippi (2.8×), and Alabama (2.8×), and least common in California (0.34×).

4,270 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.

Either side of Carleigh

#3,896 Dariel · 5,030#3,897 Hellen · 5,027#3,899 Amada · 5,009#3,899 Darcie · 5,009

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