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Leigh

Pronounced /liː/

Rank in 2024
#3,396
Born in 2024
46
Peak year
1969 · #201
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 46 girls were named Leigh, about 1 in every 35,069.
  • It peaked in 1969 with 1,563 babies, ranked #201.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1912.
  • 40,212 girls have been named Leigh since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Leigh per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.7
    Gen X
  5. 0.3
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 135 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 410 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,138 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen X: 18,760 babies, 0.73 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,779 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,388 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 602 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From the nominative case of Old English lēah (“wood, meadow”), 'dweller by the wood or clearing'.

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  • (UK) A female given name, Female equivalent of Lee.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/liː/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Leigh, CC BY-SA 4.0.