Kyleigh
- Pronunciation
- [Ky-leigh]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Not recorded
- Origin
- English
Kyleigh is a name traditionally given to a girl of English origin. Our sources do not preserve a single agreed-upon literal translation for this particular name, so we list its meaning as unrecorded rather than guess at one. Browse more English baby names or search the full library by meaning.
About the Name Kyleigh
Kyleigh does not carry a documented ancient etymology — its meaning field is empty — and it is best understood as a modern American construction that layers the popular Kylie / Kyle sound family with the Old English -leigh suffix, which in authentic Old English place names means "woodland clearing" or "meadow." In names like Kyleigh, however, the -leigh ending functions primarily as a decorative spelling flourish rather than a fully meaningful etymological element — it signals a feminine, nature-adjacent register without the name itself deriving from a genuine Old English compound. This pattern was fashionable in American girl-naming during the 2000s and 2010s, producing large families of -leigh names that shared a sound but differed visually. Claiming an independent ancient word origin for Kyleigh would misrepresent a name whose character lies in its contemporary phonetic creativity rather than in classical linguistic inheritance.
Kyleigh appears in the US Social Security top-1000 from 2000 and climbed to its peak rank of #272 in 2011 before gradually declining. Recent data show it at #768 in 2019, #834 in 2020, and #972 in 2021, the last year it appeared in the top-1000. Over its tracked run, approximately 16,915 babies received the name in top-1000 years — a considerable total for a spelling that never predated the millennium in top-1000 records. Recorded variants include Kiley, Kyla, Kylah, Kylee, and Kyli.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Kyleigh
US Popularity History (2000–2021)
Annual US births named Kyleigh by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2011 with 1,172 girls named Kyleigh (girl rank #272 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2021, ranked #972 for girls (267 US births). That's 700 places below its 2011 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Kyleigh Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Kyleigh the strongest states are Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #228 | 139 |
| 2 | West Virginia | #237 | 27 |
| 3 | Alabama | #281 | 200 |
| 4 | Louisiana | #372 | 148 |
| 5 | Arkansas | #383 | 82 |
| 6 | South Carolina | #436 | 127 |
| 7 | Georgia | #455 | 230 |
| 8 | Kentucky | #458 | 105 |
| 9 | North Carolina | #463 | 234 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | #500 | 26 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Kyleigh in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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