Leigh — #3389 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Leigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 40,212 babies named Leigh between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Leigh currently holds the #3389 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 1,563 babies received it in a single year. Leigh is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,107 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leigh performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 11,411 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Leigh shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,948 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Leigh in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leigh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 40,212 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.