Entry № 1915 · English origin

Charleigh Charleigh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHAR-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Free woman (modern feminine spelling of Charlie)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "free woman (modern feminine spelling of charlie)".

Charleigh is the modern American feminine spelling of Charlie / Charley — ultimately from Charles, from the Old Germanic karl ("free man"). Charleigh Burns — American competitive cheerleader. Charleigh Edmonson — Australian model. The -leigh feminine ending is broadly considered a Southern US naming tradition; the spelling Charleigh is more popular in Texas, Tennessee, and Florida than in California or New York.

Free woman (modern feminine spelling of Charlie) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Charleigh
Transliteration
Charleigh
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃɑːr.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Charleigh stands.

Charleigh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Charleighs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Charleigh
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Charleigh.

The number behind Charleigh.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Charleigh reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.