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Aleigh

Girl · uh-LEE · Modern

Aleigh is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

Where does Aleigh come from?

Modern: A- added to Leigh

Say it
uh-LEE

Is Aleigh a girl's or a boy's name?

Aleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aleigh in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Aleigh, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 36 girls. It first appears in the records in 1987.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Aleigh than any year since 1991.

Half of all the girls named Aleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 89 girls in the US were given Aleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,840, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1987Busiest: 36 in 20122025
Aleigh in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20247#12,156
20238#11,164
202211#9,050
202111#8,973
20209#10,245
201914#7,712
201811#9,146
201715#7,438
201611#9,408
201522#5,831
201425#5,308
201325#5,315
201236#4,119
201135#4,150
201034#4,305
200929#4,930
200828#5,140
200731#4,674
200629#4,810
200527#4,824
200430#4,488
200327#4,663
200215#7,039
200121#5,359
200027#4,395
199913#7,233
199813#7,099
199721#4,815
199614#6,387
199511#7,509
199413#6,666
19938#9,552
19929#8,726
19915#13,139
19906#11,403
19897#9,675
19880–
19875#11,320

Names like Aleigh

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