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Kaleigh vs Kaloni

American parents have registered 16,250 Kaleighs since 1880, against 696 Kalonis. Kaleigh is still ahead, with 56 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaleigh Kaloni

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

Kaleigh has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Kaleigh had 78 and Kaloni had 60.

Side by side

  Kaleigh Kaloni
Total US births 16,250696
Most in one year 72960
Babies in 2025 5635
Estimated living today 16,000690
Median age today 237
Peak year 20012022
Best rank 399th girls2,821st girls
Rank in 2025 2,957th4,067th
First recorded 19801988
Girls / boys 16,244 / 6679 / 17

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 Kalonis 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: Kaleigh and Kaloni.