Fun Facts About the Name Calleigh
- More than 2 thousand babies named Calleigh: U.S. records list 2,258 babies given the name Calleigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Calleigh Mean?
Calleigh is an English spelling variant of Callie, a feminine name with two common derivations rather than one fixed meaning. As a pet form of Caroline, Callie is linked to the Germanic root karl, "free man," through the Latin Carolus and French Caroline. As a short form of Greek names such as Calista and Calliope, it is linked to kallistos, "most beautiful," and to kallos "beauty" (with ops "voice" in Calliope). The familiar gloss "beautiful" belongs to the Greek-derived use; "free man" belongs to the Caroline use. Calleigh adds no distinct meaning of its own.
Calleigh Name History & Origins
Callie grew out of English nickname use: it served as an informal form of Caroline and of several names beginning with Cal-, especially Calista and Calliope. Caroline entered English from French, which had it from Latin Carolus; that Latin form represents the Germanic name Karl. Calista and Calliope came into English use from Greek, and their kall- element is the source of the "beauty" sense. In modern English, Calleigh respells Callie with the -leigh ending. That ending appears in many English feminine names such as Ashleigh and Kayleigh, and in English place names it often goes back to Old English lēah, "woodland clearing"; in Calleigh it is a spelling convention, not a separate meaning element. A modern fictional bearer is Calleigh Duquesne on the television series CSI: Miami.
How Popular is the Name Calleigh?
Calleigh recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2009. Its best rank was #834 in 2009.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #6,368 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2024 | #5,162 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2023 | #5,022 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2022 | #5,190 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2021 | #4,033 | 36 | 0.0022% |
| 2020 | #3,938 | 36 | 0.0022% |
| 2019 | #3,281 | 48 | 0.0029% |
| 2018 | #2,755 | 62 | 0.0036% |
| 2017 | #2,057 | 95 | 0.0055% |
| 2016 | #2,521 | 71 | 0.0040% |
| 2015 | #2,325 | 80 | 0.0045% |
| 2014 | #1,894 | 106 | 0.0059% |
| 2013 | #1,908 | 105 | 0.0060% |
| 2012 | #1,689 | 124 | 0.0070% |
| 2011 | #1,622 | 133 | 0.0076% |
| 2010 | #1,338 | 176 | 0.0099% |
| 2009 | #834 | 335 | 0.0182% |
| 2008 | #1,200 | 212 | 0.0112% |
| 2007 | #1,344 | 181 | 0.0094% |
| 2006 | #2,189 | 88 | 0.0046% |
| 2005 | #2,363 | 75 | 0.0041% |
| 2004 | #4,300 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2003 | #3,812 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2002 | #10,381 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2001 | #9,488 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2000 | #5,984 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1999 | #4,745 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 1998 | #8,091 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1997 | #11,045 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1996 | #8,925 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1995 | #7,127 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1994 | #8,228 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1993 | #10,782 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #10,643 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #8,057 | 10 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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