Caleigh
Kaylee is a feminine given name. The name is a modern English combination of the name elements Kay and Lee.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Caleigh
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kaylee is a feminine given name. The name is a modern English combination of the name elements Kay and Lee.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Caleigh
American parents first put Caleigh on the record books as a baby girl name in 1984, with 7 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1999, when 322 Caleighs were born — ranking #702 that year. About 41% of every Caleigh on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Caleigh ranks #2,864 for baby girls with 58 births, falling sharply (-34%). All told, over 6K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Caleigh
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Names that sound like Caleigh
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About the name Caleigh
Caleigh is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1984 and has accumulated 6K births in the dataset. Caleigh's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #702. Use the chart and map above to compare Caleigh's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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