Harleigh
- Pronunciation
- [Har-leigh]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- From The Hare's Meadow
- Origin
- English
Harleigh Popularity Snapshot
Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 5 baby boys have been named Harleigh. The name peaked in 2021 with 5 US births that year (rank #12800).
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8-Letter Names Starting with H
Names with Harleigh's exact length and starting letter: Hadassah, Hadiyyah, Hadleigh, Hagaleah, Hagalean.
Quick Facts About Harleigh
US Popularity History (2016–2020)
Annual US births named Harleigh by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2017 with 312 girls named Harleigh (girl rank #877 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2020, ranked #992 for girls (257 US births). That's 115 places below its 2017 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 Harleigh 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 Harleigh the strongest states are Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #319 | 89 |
| 2 | Louisiana | #400 | 121 |
| 3 | Arkansas | #401 | 68 |
| 4 | Alabama | #421 | 112 |
| 5 | Kentucky | #540 | 64 |
| 6 | Tennessee | #639 | 86 |
| 7 | Georgia | #670 | 115 |
| 8 | South Carolina | #681 | 33 |
| 9 | Oklahoma | #715 | 29 |
| 10 | Missouri | #746 | 31 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio | #907 | 78 |
| 2 | Indiana | #880 | 35 |
| 3 | Virginia | #864 | 53 |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | #855 | 66 |
| 5 | North Carolina | #839 | 87 |
| 6 | Maryland | #779 | 42 |
| 7 | Michigan | #763 | 64 |
| 8 | Missouri | #746 | 31 |
| 9 | Oklahoma | #715 | 29 |
| 10 | South Carolina | #681 | 33 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Harleigh in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Harleigh against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).