Login

Name Leigh

Meaning:

meadow

Tools:

Add to favorites

Generate:
Twitter-able text
SMS text

Compare to:
Behind the Name

Search with:
Wikipedia
NNDB
IMDb
Google

Name info:

About the name Leigh in particular

Gender:	female
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

Group info:

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

Popularity:

Popularity lists that contain the name Leigh

Series	Graph	Rankings
USA decades	Graph	1990-1999 701, 1980-1989 302
USA yearly	Graph	1996 898, 1995 850, 1994 724, 1993 615