Leigh
Leigh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. Its best rank was 201st, in 1969.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19691,563 births
- Best rank
- #201in 1969
- Since 1912
- 45,319people given the name
The story in the numbers
40,212 girls have been named Leigh in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1969, with 1,563 births.
The name has all but left use: 46 births in 2024, against 1,563 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1970s alone account for 28%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,107 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leigh | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 49 | |
| 1920s | 101 | |
| 1930s | 127 | |
| 1940s | 791 | |
| 1950s | 4,081 | |
| 1960s | 10,705 | |
| 1970s | 11,411 | |
| 1980s | 8,459 | |
| 1990s | 2,985 | |
| 2000s | 768 | |
| 2010s | 513 | |
| 2020s | 222 |
In 1969, its biggest year
Leigh was the 201st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1969 were Lisa, Michelle, Jennifer, Kimberly and Melissa. See all of 1969.
Names that rose and fell with Leigh
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Charissepeak 1971
- Danapeak 1971
- Rochellpeak 1971
- Kandipeak 1981
- Jenninepeak 1971
- Betinapeak 1973
- Tamarapeak 1970
- Jeninepeak 1970
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.