Maleigh

Q: Where does Maleigh come from?

Maleigh is a girls' name of Modern origin, blend of Ma- and Leigh, or a spelling of Maylee.

Gender: Girl
Say it: MAY-lee
Origin: Modern
US rank, 2025: #14,937 for girls

Maleigh is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

Where does Maleigh come from?

Modern: blend of Ma- and Leigh, or a spelling of Maylee

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

Maleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Maleigh in the US?

Rank in 2025: 14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025: 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend: Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Maleigh, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.

2025 had fewer girls named Maleigh than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Maleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

2000Busiest: 19 in 20162025

Maleigh in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	5	#14,937
2024	11	#8,941
2023	9	#10,307
2022	9	#10,377
2021	7	#12,201
2020	8	#11,085
2019	0	–
2018	7	#12,459
2017	0	–
2016	19	#6,398
2015	8	#11,830
2014	11	#9,512
2013	15	#7,744
2012	16	#7,452
2011	18	#6,852
2010	16	#7,510
2009	13	#8,884
2008	18	#7,069
2007	8	#12,671
2006	14	#8,234
2005	9	#10,915
2004	7	#12,754
2003	6	#13,837
2002	0	–
2001	6	#13,514
2000	6	#13,147