Meaning not yet researched.
Leigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #201 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #201 in 1969; #4,504 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,504 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #201.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Leigh: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #201 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 1,564 (1969).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Leigh, making it the 4,504th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,068 places from #3,436 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 46 girls named Leigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #201, reached in 1969. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,564. For comparison, it was #3,416 in 2015 and #662 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Leigh in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #655, reached in 1955. That year also had the most boys given the name: 126. For comparison, it was #10,198 in 2015 and #769 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leigh in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 45,349 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 12,011 babies named Leigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 481 US girls were named Leigh; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Leah (256,954 babies since 1880), Leia (18,778 babies since 1880), Leigha (6,594 babies since 1880) and Liah (2,711 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leiya and Leighia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leiya (343), Leighia (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leigh in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,504 | — | — |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,953 | 5 | #13,375 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,979 | 8 | #9,498 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,814 | 9 | #8,467 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,424 | 8 | #9,311 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,723 | 6 | #11,588 |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,416 | 7 | #10,198 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,033 | 8 | #9,285 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,962 | 6 | #11,674 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,285 | 8 | #9,331 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,873 | 5 | #13,673 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,044 | 5 | #13,764 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,634 | 7 | #10,442 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,694 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,334 | 7 | #9,543 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,115 | 6 | #10,342 |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,071 | 8 | #8,142 |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,599 | 11 | #6,272 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,499 | 14 | #5,210 |
| 1999 | 149 | #1,254 | 11 | #5,889 |
| 1998 | 147 | #1,241 | 9 | #6,623 |
| 1997 | 191 | #1,010 | 14 | #4,592 |
| 1996 | 219 | #899 | 11 | #5,394 |
| 1995 | 230 | #852 | 16 | #3,980 |
| 1994 | 287 | #726 | 14 | #4,438 |
| 1993 | 372 | #615 | 12 | #4,891 |
| 1992 | 423 | #557 | 23 | #2,961 |
| 1991 | 445 | #526 | 33 | #2,212 |
| 1990 | 523 | #468 | 28 | #2,467 |
| 1989 | 603 | #409 | 40 | #1,883 |
| 1988 | 714 | #347 | 43 | #1,660 |
| 1987 | 668 | #358 | 56 | #1,331 |
| 1986 | 718 | #337 | 51 | #1,396 |
| 1985 | 773 | #312 | 58 | #1,265 |
| 1984 | 883 | #272 | 64 | #1,140 |
| 1983 | 863 | #271 | 58 | #1,196 |
| 1982 | 959 | #258 | 79 | #1,020 |
| 1981 | 1,100 | #230 | 79 | #1,027 |
| 1980 | 1,176 | #218 | 63 | #1,151 |
| 1979 | 1,127 | #232 | 66 | #1,103 |
| 1978 | 916 | #258 | 55 | #1,211 |
| 1977 | 954 | #258 | 62 | #1,110 |
| 1976 | 930 | #257 | 54 | #1,173 |
| 1975 | 1,064 | #228 | 57 | #1,122 |
| 1974 | 1,225 | #206 | 37 | #1,432 |
| 1973 | 1,078 | #239 | 48 | #1,195 |
| 1972 | 1,210 | #228 | 60 | #1,042 |
| 1971 | 1,424 | #213 | 74 | #951 |
| 1970 | 1,483 | #213 | 87 | #864 |
| 1969 | 1,564 | #201 | 77 | #876 |
| 1968 | 1,425 | #210 | 82 | #819 |
| 1967 | 1,342 | #218 | 88 | #780 |
| 1966 | 972 | #266 | 71 | #867 |
| 1965 | 868 | #308 | 60 | #950 |
| 1964 | 1,050 | #279 | 76 | #876 |
| 1963 | 980 | #296 | 76 | #867 |
| 1962 | 891 | #314 | 77 | #869 |
| 1961 | 843 | #325 | 81 | #854 |
| 1960 | 770 | #345 | 80 | #847 |
| 1959 | 671 | #369 | 80 | #851 |
| 1958 | 622 | #366 | 89 | #794 |
| 1957 | 617 | #365 | 84 | #828 |
| 1956 | 611 | #354 | 98 | #743 |
| 1955 | 460 | #412 | 126 | #655 |
| 1954 | 319 | #497 | 98 | #729 |
| 1953 | 241 | #565 | 104 | #699 |
| 1952 | 190 | #645 | 101 | #696 |
| 1951 | 184 | #643 | 83 | #772 |
| 1950 | 166 | #662 | 80 | #769 |
| 1949 | 163 | #652 | 104 | #672 |
| 1948 | 122 | #779 | 93 | #696 |
| 1947 | 114 | #824 | 105 | #674 |
| 1946 | 124 | #727 | 85 | #706 |
| 1945 | 74 | #876 | 78 | #688 |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,181 | 63 | #792 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,411 | 77 | #738 |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,107 | 69 | #779 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,301 | 60 | #823 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,453 | 65 | #769 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,922 | 42 | #986 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,680 | 54 | #849 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,510 | 57 | #815 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,988 | 54 | #829 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,051 | 45 | #948 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,047 | 37 | #1,083 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,274 | 22 | #1,482 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,949 | 29 | #1,278 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,988 | 35 | #1,162 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,490 | 35 | #1,207 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,268 | 31 | #1,283 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,478 | 49 | #987 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,181 | 41 | #1,122 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,642 | 36 | #1,205 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,527 | 37 | #1,176 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,751 | 42 | #1,114 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,830 | 41 | #1,123 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,528 | 29 | #1,383 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,054 | 32 | #1,310 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,479 | 33 | #1,266 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,059 | 41 | #1,070 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,086 | 31 | #1,276 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,985 | 32 | #1,213 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,807 | 21 | #1,574 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,037 | 31 | #1,174 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,932 | 15 | #1,651 |
| 1913 | — | — | 17 | #1,289 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,059 | 18 | #1,126 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,243 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,516 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,511 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,276 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,349 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,145 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #829 |
| 1896 | — | — | 7 | #940 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #838 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #826 |
| 1892 | — | — | 9 | #773 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,053 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #877 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #880 |
| 1886 | — | — | 8 | #730 |
| 1885 | — | — | 7 | #808 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,024 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).