Kaleigh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaleigh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 23K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 196K
- CACanada≈1 in 107K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
14,272 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name originating as a coinage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaleigh counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 14,272 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Kaleigh | 318 |
| CA Canada | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 1 | Kaleigh | 113 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 196K | 5 | Kaleigh | 89 |
| AU Australia | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 350K | 1 | Kaleigh | 38 |
| IT Italy | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Kaleigh | 8 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
14,272 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kaleigh Rafterb. 1986CACanadian softball player
- Kaleigh Traceb. 1986CACanadian writer
- Kaleigh Graingerb. 1986GBBritish unicyclist
- Kaleigh Croninb. 1989USAmerican actress and singer
- Kaleigh Gilchristb. 1992USAmerican water polo player
- Kaleigh Holeb. 1993CAfigure skater
- Kaleigh Kurtzb. 1994USAmerican soccer player
- Kaleigh Riehlb. 1996USAmerican soccer player
- Kaleigh Quennecb. 1998CHCanadian-Swiss ice hockey player
- Kaleigh Riverab. 2001USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,956 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 729 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 683 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 675 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 670 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 668 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 647 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 641 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 636 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 625 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 577 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 571 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kaleigh mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kaleigh?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Kathy are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kathryn and Kay.
- How do you pronounce Kaleigh?
- A machine transcription gives /kəʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kaleigh a male or female name?
- Kaleigh is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kaleigh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Kaleigh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaleigh.
- Where is Kaleigh most common?
- Kaleigh is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kaleigh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,272 people named Kaleigh in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaleigh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaleighThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaleigh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.