Kaleigha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kuh-LAY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #4,066 for girls
Kaleigha is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,066th for girls in the US (35 babies).
Where does Kaleigha come from?
Modern: variant of Kayleigh
Is Kaleigha a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaleigha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 35 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaleigha in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,066th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 35 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 35 girls in the US were named Kaleigha, making it the 4,066th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,840th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 67 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Kaleigha in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 48 girls in the US were given Kaleigha or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,626, up from #4,066 for this spelling alone.
Kaleigha in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,066 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,667 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,701 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,296 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,840 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,498 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,244 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,146 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,010 |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,024 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,224 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,165 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,865 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,694 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,670 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,965 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,267 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,674 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,918 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,263 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,965 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
Names like Kaleigha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Teagan, Mckenna, Braelynn, Kiara, Kianna, Kennedy, Keiry, Kayden, Brylee, Cassidy, Briella
Other spellings of Kaleigha
Names related to Kaleigha
Kayleigh, Kyleigh, Kaleigh, Caleigh, Kaileigh, Kalleigh, Kaeleigh
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
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, “Kaleigha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaleigha, updated 20 October 2026.