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Leigh

Pronounced /liː/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1955 · #654
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:46 in 2024 (#3,396)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Leigh in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1955 with 126 babies, ranked #654.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1882.
  • 5,107 boys 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.

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    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 528 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 902 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,720 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,041 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 665 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 117 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 51 babies, 0.00 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.