Avaleigh
Feminine
Avaleigh joins Ava — one of the most-used girls' names of its decade and one of the least explained — to the -leigh ending American naming attaches to almost anything.
How old is the name Avaleigh?
Avaleigh first appears in US birth records in 2005 — 20 years ago. The typical Avaleigh is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Avaleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avaleigh most popular?
Avaleigh peaked in 2021, reaching #1980 nationally. Today it ranks #3645, 1,665 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Avaleigh
Ours, offered as ours. The -leigh spelling is worth pausing on. It is six letters doing the work of two sounds, and it exists because Leigh, an English surname, was spelled that way and became a girls' name in the twentieth century. From there the whole cluster of letters detached and became available as an ending. Avaleigh, Kayleigh and Everleigh all wear it. It costs a lifetime of spelling aloud and buys a name that is unmistakably the family's own.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The compound has no established meaning. Ava's own origin is genuinely unsettled: a Germanic root, a shortening of longer Av- names and a Latin bird word have all been proposed and none is established. The -leigh ending is a modern suffix.
Pronouncing Avaleigh
AV-uh-lee
Three syllables, first stressed. Some families say AY-vuh-lee, following Ava.
Nicknames for Avaleigh
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2005
- Most girls named
- 202198 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1980reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −30.5%41 in 2025, from 59
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Avaleigh in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, North Carolina, Georgia.
Avaleighs among us
people named Avaleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was named Avaleigh
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Linnette test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avaleigh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Linnette climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Linnette's path sketches the road Avaleigh is walking now.
Avaleigh sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Avaleigh is headed
Avaleigh is easing off slowly — about 20% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Avaleigh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avaleigh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ava and Leigh are both complete names that stand on their own.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Rare in the records, so it stays distinct on a class list.
- The -leigh ending is six letters doing the work of two, and she will spell it aloud for life.
- Avaleigh, Avalee and Avalie are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound or for Ava itself.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avaleighs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Avaleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Avaleigh in 2025?
- Avaleigh ranks #3645 among US girl names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avaleigh?
- About 1 in every 39,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Avaleigh — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avaleigh with classmates?
- Avaleigh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Avaleigh
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