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Leighton

Pronounced /ˈleɪtən/

Rank in 2024
#395
Born in 2024
797
Peak year
2023 · #357
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:213 in 2024 (#1,039)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 797 girls were named Leighton, about 1 in every 2,024.
  • It peaked in 2023 with 853 babies, ranked #357.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1956.
  • 11,519 girls have been named Leighton since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 6 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 173 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,565 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,775 babies, 0.43 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Various place names in England, Old English leac (“leek”) + tun (“settlement”), also in the sense of a herb garden.

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈleɪtən/

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