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Leighton

Pronounced /ˈleɪtən/

Rank in 2024
#1,039
Born in 2024
213
Peak year
2019 · #692
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:797 in 2024 (#395)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 213 boys were named Leighton, about 1 in every 8,053.
  • It peaked in 2019 with 366 babies, ranked #692.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1893.
  • 9,201 boys 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.

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Greatest: 630 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 690 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 709 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 576 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,162 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,228 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,179 babies, 0.15 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.