Henleigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HEN-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Henleigh is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “high clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Henleigh mean?
English: spelling of Henley, an English place-name surname
“high clearing”
A spelling of Henley, from English places such as Henley-on-Thames, home of a famous rowing regatta.
Is Henleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Henleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Henleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,545among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 33% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Henleigh, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,755th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 40 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Henleigh than any year since 2012.
Half of all the girls named Henleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 290 girls in the US were given Henleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #853, up from #6,545 for this spelling alone.
Henleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,245 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,025 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,163 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,755 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,342 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,560 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,996 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,766 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,115 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
Names like Henleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee Sevyn Briar Teagan Rynlee Braelynn Londyn Kenley Oaklynn Reign Ocean Collins
Other spellings of Henleigh
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Harper Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Riley Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Henleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/henleigh, updated 20 October 2026.