Baleigh
Baleigh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199998 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1988
- 1,889people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,889 girls have been named Baleigh in the United States since 1988, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 98 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 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 39%.
By decade
In 1999, its biggest year
Baleigh was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Baleigh
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Emoniepeak 2005
- Klaudiapeak 2004
- Baileypeak 1998
- Kassidypeak 2000
- Mackenziepeak 2001
- Kaileepeak 2003
- Caileypeak 1999
- Caleighpeak 1999
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.