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Keyleigh

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAY-lee
Origin
Modern

Keyleigh is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Keyleigh come from?

Modern: modern spelling variant of Kayleigh

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

Keyleigh is a girls' name.

How popular is Keyleigh in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 14 girls.

Half of all the girls named Keyleigh in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2004. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 14 in 19982012
Keyleigh in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20123#6,108
20111#7,717
20100–
20095#4,141
20080–
20073#5,415
20066#3,280
20055#3,543
20046#2,957
20036#2,877
20027#2,436
20019#1,974
20007#2,304
19998#2,089
199814#1,417
19978#2,073
199611#1,621

How popular is Keyleigh in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the girls named Keyleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 24 in 20102019
Keyleigh in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20199#10,467
20180–
201710#9,939
20169#10,855
20159#10,861
20140–
201315#7,744
201213#8,628
201116#7,432
201024#5,600
200918#7,063
200818#7,069
200717#7,390
200613#8,711
200511#9,447
20049#10,684
20036#13,837
20020–
20010–
20005#15,024
19990–
19980–
19976#12,065

Names like Keyleigh

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

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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, “Keyleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/keyleigh, updated 20 October 2026.