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Kaleia vs Kaleigh

American parents have registered 16,250 Kaleighs since 1880, against 1,131 Kaleias. But in 2025 it was Kaleia that was commoner, 95 babies to 56.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaleia against Kaleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaleia Kaleigh

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 46 years in which either name was published, Kaleigh for 43 years and Kaleia for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kaleia Kaleigh
Total US births 1,13116,250
Most in one year 100729
Babies in 2025 9556
Estimated living today 1,10016,000
Median age today 723
Peak year 20232001
Best rank 1,965th girls399th girls
Rank in 2025 2,002nd2,957th
First recorded 19831980
Girls / boys 1,131 / 016,244 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kaleighs alive today are over 23; half the Kaleias are over 7. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kaleia and Kaleigh.