Aleigha
Aleigha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 67 births. Its best rank was 843rd, in 2012.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 670.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2012316 births
- Best rank
- #843in 2012
- Since 1981
- 4,810people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,810 girls have been named Aleigha in the United States since 1981, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 316 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 46%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2012, its biggest year
Aleigha was the 843rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2012 were Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Aleigha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mayceepeak 2010
- Leeahpeak 2012
- Mayciepeak 2010
- Cayleighpeak 2009
- Jocelynnpeak 2010
- Kendyllpeak 2011
- Brinkleypeak 2012
- Kyleipeak 2012
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.