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Name Leigh

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meadow

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About the name Leigh in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	English
Topics:	Male and female
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Leigh, Leigha, Aleigha, Caleigh, Haleigh, Kaleigh, Keith, Kyleigh, Leah, Lech Details

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About Lee/Lee, the group of names with the same origin as Leigh

Meaning/translation:	meadow
Language of origin:	Old English
Info about origin, male:	from a family name deriving from a frequent place name meaning meadow
Words:	leah = the wood (in the sense of forest), the clearing (open place within a wood), the meadow Old English
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	12:Lee England+Wales 1974, 95:Leigh England+Wales 1984, 302:Leigh USA 1980-1989, 964:Leigha USA 2011
Name variants:	Lee, Leigh, Leigha, Lee, Leigh Sortable list Details

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Popularity lists that contain the name Leigh

Series	Graph	Rankings
England+Wales decades	Graph	1984 95, 1974 98