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Aleigha

Girl · a-LEE-a · Modern

Aleigha is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,067th for girls in the US (53 babies).

Where does Aleigha come from?

Modern: modern spelling, probably of Aleah or Aliyah

Say it
a-LEE-a

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

Aleigha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 53 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aleigha in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 21 girls.

Half of all the girls named Aleigha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1996Busiest: 21 in 20142024
Aleigha in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20243#5,966
20235#4,251
20220–
20215#4,148
202010#2,566
201910#2,590
20186#3,702
201716#1,913
201611#2,510
201517#1,813
201421#1,544
201316#1,874
201216#1,914
201116#1,824
201011#2,379
200911#2,298
200813#2,046
200711#2,198
200612#1,987
20058#2,555
20048#2,406
200310#1,954
200211#1,755
20018#2,150
20000–
19993#4,041
19984#3,310
19971#5,110
19963#3,935

How popular is Aleigha in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,067among girls
Babies in 2025
53about 1 in 30,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 48% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 53 girls in the US were named Aleigha, making it the 3,067th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,924th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 317 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.

2025 had fewer girls named Aleigha than any year since 1993.

Half of all the girls named Aleigha in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 4,461 girls in the US were given Aleigha or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #60, up from #3,067 for this spelling alone.

1981Busiest: 317 in 20122025
Aleigha in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202553#3,067
202467#2,607
202368#2,588
202264#2,689
202197#1,991
202099#1,924
2019120#1,724
2018140#1,548
2017171#1,353
2016182#1,313
2015221#1,146
2014243#1,062
2013294#877
2012317#841
2011267#956
2010253#995
2009233#1,091
2008175#1,374
2007146#1,556
2006178#1,314
2005126#1,608
2004147#1,412
2003125#1,541
2002152#1,287
2001130#1,443
2000130#1,419
199991#1,750
199891#1,732
199769#2,042
199660#2,226
199559#2,239
199458#2,250
199330#3,580
199230#3,575
199126#3,930
199027#3,808
198918#4,842
198817#4,835
19879#7,348
198615#4,961
198514#5,075
198412#5,538
19839#6,703
198222#3,646
198112#5,570

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