Kaleigh

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kaleigh: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #380, and it was last ranked in 2010.

2registrars recorded it
16times a registrar ranked it
15years from first to last
#380highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2010

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1364
1997	#1543
1998	#1480
1999	#1805
2001	#2226
2002	#2868
2003	#3099
2005	#3382
2006	#2781
2007	#3667
2009	#3936
2010	#2589

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 12 of the 15 years from 1996 to 2010.

In 2006: #764 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2781 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2010 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1364 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
Highest recorded1997–2006
Highest recorded position: #380 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1997–2006).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2010
Most recently recorded at #2589 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010.
England and Wales · Girls

Kaleigh appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 93 births with the name.

Kaleigh 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.

Kaleigh'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	#1364 (1996)	#1364 (1996)	#2589 (2010)	12 of 15	93 (1996–2010)	13 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#496 (1997)	#380 (1998)	#764 (2006)	4 of 10	16 (1997–2006)	5 (1998)

Kaleigh 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 Kaleigh in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	45	4 of 10	11
2000sbusiest	39	7 of 10	6
2010s	9	1 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

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

Kaleigh 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #380 in Republic of Ireland in 1998.

Kaleigh'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
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1480	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1364	13	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	5	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#496	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1996 and 2010, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #380, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 1 year 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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
4separate stretches the record falls into4 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#2,589position in 2010, its most recent recorded year
1 yearyears between the first and last registrar to record itWithin 2 years →
13births registered in its largest year, 1996Under 25 births →

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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Lenora · #380, 14y
Olin · #379, 11y
Tyreke · #379, 9y
John-Joe · #378, 13y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Elysia · #380, 29y
Aamir · #379, 29y
Auryn · #379, 18y
Ayyub · #379, 28y

Kaleigh was ranked #380 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1998. 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.

Kaleigh 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 Kaleigh without appearing here.

Kaleigh moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3936 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #5707.
Jesse Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3936 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #4688.
Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #3936 and #5556.
Jordan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3936 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #4012.

Moved ahead of Kaleigh

Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2226 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2868 and #938.
Dylan Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2781 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3667 and #2085.
Diane Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2226 and #2466 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2868 and #1530.
Linnea Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3099 and #3594 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #2084.

Moved the opposite way to Kaleigh

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaleigh went from #1364 to #2589 while Ada went from #2683 to #499.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaleigh went from #1364 to #2589 while Alma went from #2096 to #1040.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaleigh went from #1364 to #2589 while Alyssa went from #783 to #164.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaleigh went from #1364 to #2589 while Amalie went from #2096 to #758.

Moved the same way as Kaleigh

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaleigh went from #1364 to #2589 and Abigail from #21 to #34.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaleigh went from #1364 to #2589 and Aisling from #440 to #1520.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaleigh went from #1364 to #2589 and Alex from #161 to #674.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaleigh went from #1364 to #2589 and Alexandra from #38 to #97.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #380 in Republic of Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Kaleigh

Kaleigh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaleigh across 2 official records

Kaleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Kaleigh across 2 official records

Kaleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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