Aleigha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aleigha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aleigha: Recorded since 1996, it reached #432 in 2017, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#432highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1998	#3142
1999	#3900
2001	#2226
2002	#1658
2003	#1996
2004	#2530
2005	#2970
2006	#1983
2007	#2085
2008	#1914
2009	#2535
2010	#2392
2011	#1903
2012	#1991
2013	#1956
2014	#1628
2015	#2070
2016	#2966
2017	#2201
2018	#4684
2019	#3151
2020	#2615
2023	#5687
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2017: #432 among girls in Northern Ireland, #2201 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Aleigha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 223 births with the name.

Aleigha across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aleigha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#1628 (2014)	#5891 (2024)	25 of 29	223 (1996–2024)	18 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#894 (2013)	#885 (2025)	#885 (2025)	2 of 13	6 (2013–2025)	3 (2013)

Aleigha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aleigha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	3 of 10	3
2000s	84	9 of 10	9
2010sbusiest	114	10 of 10	11
2020s	15	3 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aleigha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #432 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Aleigha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1914	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #432, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Aleezay · #2615, 11y
Aleia · #790, 13y
Aleisha · #95, 26y
Alejandra · #873, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amarah · #432, 29y
Beatriz · #432, 29y
Kaley · #432, 23y
Teodora · #432, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abram · #432, 18y
Amarah · #432, 29y
Beatriz · #432, 29y
Georgia-Mae · #432, 22y

Aleigha was ranked #432 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aleigha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aleigha without appearing here.

Aleigha moved ahead of

Gail Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3900 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1658 and #4137.
George Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1658 and #4137.
Carol Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.
Finn Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2226 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Aleigha

Arlo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #1469.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2615 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #1436.
Cecilie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2615 and #3117 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.

Moved the opposite way to Aleigha

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleigha went from #3795 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleigha went from #3795 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleigha went from #3795 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleigha went from #3795 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Aleigha

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleigha went from #3795 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleigha went from #3795 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleigha went from #3795 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleigha went from #3795 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #432 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aleigha

Aleigha at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aleigha across 2 official records

Aleigha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aleigha appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aleigha

Aleigha and the names beside it

Aleigha moved ahead of

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Aleigha at a glance

Aleigha across 2 official records

Aleigha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aleigha appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aleigha

Aleigha and the names beside it

Aleigha moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Aleigha

Moved the opposite way to Aleigha

Moved the same way as Aleigha