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Karleigh

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#3,388 for girls

Karleigh is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,388th for girls in the US (45 babies).

What does Karleigh mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Karleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 45 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Karleigh in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1997, with 6 girls.

Half of all the girls named Karleigh in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2013. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 6 in 19972020
Karleigh in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20201#7,326
20191#7,346
20181#7,536
20171#7,682
20160–
20156#3,777
20141#7,592
20134#4,953
20121#7,881
20111#7,717
20101#7,520
20090–
20084#4,742
20074#4,494
20066#3,280
20051#6,340
20044#3,916
20030–
20020–
20010–
20003#4,074
19991#5,182
19980–
19976#2,552
19965#2,815

How popular is Karleigh in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,388among girls
Babies in 2025
45about 1 in 36,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 64% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 45 girls in the US were named Karleigh, making it the 3,388th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,398th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 237 girls. It first appears in the records in 1983.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 9 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Karleigh than any year since 1990.

Half of all the girls named Karleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 112 girls in the US were given Karleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,566, up from #3,388 for this spelling alone.

1983Busiest: 237 in 20162025
Karleigh in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202545#3,388
202452#3,081
202384#2,229
202289#2,142
2021118#1,739
2020156#1,398
2019164#1,373
2018179#1,279
2017183#1,287
2016237#1,088
2015236#1,095
2014230#1,107
2013236#1,046
2012210#1,167
2011225#1,090
2010227#1,095
2009186#1,301
2008213#1,193
2007199#1,244
2006161#1,403
2005160#1,355
2004154#1,362
2003151#1,341
2002135#1,417
2001127#1,475
2000111#1,586
199990#1,767
199894#1,688
199787#1,747
199658#2,279
199584#1,726
199467#2,054
199356#2,284
199263#2,123
199156#2,285
199018#5,055
198918#4,842
198820#4,303
198718#4,471
198613#5,456
198511#6,029
19846#9,139
19835#10,272

Names like Karleigh

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Karleigh

Names related to Karleigh

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Karleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/karleigh, updated 20 October 2026.