How rare is the name Karleigh?

3,844 people in the United States have the first name Karleigh, about 1 in 78,572. It ranks #4,726 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KARLEIGH

#4,726

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,844
About
1 in 78,572
This common or more
84.4%
Who bears it

Of the 3,844 people named Karleigh, 78.4% reported their origin as White, 9.4% as Black and 5.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Karleigh peaked in 2016, when 237 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19832025
Peak year
2016
Births that year
237
In 2025*
45 ▼81%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,032 babies have been given the name since 1983. 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.

Karleigh by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #2,114. The largest share of babies named Karleigh, 50.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#10,63291
1990s#3,497673
2000s#2,3901,597
2010s#2,1142,127
2020s#3,789544
Millennials 1981–969.8%
Generation Z 1997–1250.3%
2013 and later39.9%

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 Karleigh is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Karleigh has been most common in Mississippi (4.3×), Alabama (3.4×), and Louisiana (3.1×), and least common in California (0.2×).

3,362 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 Karleigh

#4,723 Karine · 3,848#4,725 Brittanie · 3,846#4,727 Vinay · 3,843#4,728 Jeromy · 3,842

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