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Kelleigh
How to Pronounce Kelleigh
Pronounced KEL-ee /หkษl.i/Medium
Meaning: Kelleigh is an ornate spelling of Kelly, from the Irish surname O Ceallaigh, whose root Ceallach is usually read as bright-headed or, by another account, strife or war.Low
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History & Origin
Kelleigh is an elaborated respelling of Kelly, from the Irish Ceallach, usually read as bright-headed. The trendy -eigh ending marked it as a late twentieth-century flourish, and it appeared for American girls only faintly, around 1987.
It was never common in this spelling, given to only about twenty girls a year at most, while plain Kelly was widespread. A girl named Kelleigh then would be in her late thirties today. It reads as a decorative variant of its decade rather than a lasting form.
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What does the name Kelleigh mean?
It is an ornate spelling of Kelly, from the Irish Ceallach, bright-headed.
How do you pronounce Kelleigh?
It is said KEL-ee /หkษl.i/, two syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Kelleigh a boy or girl name?
Kelleigh is used as a girls name.
How popular is Kelleigh?
It has always been very rare in this spelling, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the late nineteen-eighties.