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Leigha

#3,950 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Leigha has been given to 6,594 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #3,950 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 267 recorded.

Babies named Leigha, 2025

1 in 89,600

Leigha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leigha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leigha means

Leigha is a given name.

The naming story behind Leigha

Wikidata records Leigha as a given name. The entity identifier is Q117664299, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,594 girls were recorded with the name Leigha between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 267 in 2011; its best national rank was #959 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,164 in 2020 to #3,950 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,431 in 2015 to #3,950 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Leigha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,950
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leigha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leigha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leighas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leigha was born before 2003 — so the typical Leigha is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,594
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (1,822).

Is Leigha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+389
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,786
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,519
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.9%
Peak was 2011 (267)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#959
2011

Spellings of Leigha

Leigha is not the most common spelling — Leila is, with 25.9% against Leigha's 3.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Leigha is used

Across 2016–2025, Leigha was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 31,887 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 6,667
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 16,667
  3. 3Georgia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 20,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 20,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Leigha around the world

Where Leigha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1991–2020
    #765
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    1995–2021
    #586
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1965–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Leigha

People whose public names include Leigha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leigha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,950
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,786
Best rank ever
#959
2011
Peak year
2011
267 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,594
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Leigha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LeilahLeilanyLeishaLeianaLeightonLeighannLeiahLeisaAleighaLeiaLeighLeianiLeighlaLeidyLeiannaLeinaLeilaLeilaniLeilanaLeiloniLeilanieLeithaAnaghaLeira

Names with a curve like Leigha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leigha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PriyaKeilaKalliCalliAnabelJessalynKinseyShylaKeeleyAliJanessaBryn

Sibling names for Leigha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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