Leigha
Leigha was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,950 among girls’ names; 6,594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,480 Americans named Leigha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leigha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leigha?
#3,950 among girls’ names, 2025
Leigha fell from #1,431 in 2015 to #3,950 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 90.8 to 23.0 per million.
267 babies in 2011, the peak
Leigha peaked in 2011, when 267 girls were given it, #959 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,950 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,339 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,877 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,980 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,023 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 84 | #2,164 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,884 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,883 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 138 | #1,587 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 136 | #1,619 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 162 | #1,431 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 184 | #1,298 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 183 | #1,287 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 231 | #1,077 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 267 | #959 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 234 | #1,061 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 251 | #1,039 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 227 | #1,135 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 186 | #1,314 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 188 | #1,277 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 175 | #1,278 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 182 | #1,222 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 148 | #1,368 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 154 | #1,277 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 154 | #1,280 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,248 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 145 | #1,275 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,535 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,372 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,456 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 142 | #1,209 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 130 | #1,305 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 142 | #1,220 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 133 | #1,281 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 178 | #1,032 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 165 | #1,072 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 145 | #1,140 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 115 | #1,274 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 140 | #1,089 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 97 | #1,348 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,484 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 84 | #1,393 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,546 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,392 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,745 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 64 | #1,742 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,822 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,144 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,403 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,833 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,645 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,649 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,257 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,860 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,582 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,638 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,428 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,701 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,475 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,333 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,359 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,768 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,235 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leigha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leigha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leigha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leigha, and how old are they?
6,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,594 Americans ever recorded as Leigha. The median Leigha alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 5,640 people named Leigha (5,635 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 407 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Leigha born?
The states with the most babies named Leigha are Texas, Ohio and New York, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 408 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 396 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 275 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 255 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 242 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 233 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 225 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 197 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 191 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 169 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Leigha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leigha is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1961 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Leigha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leigha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Leigha and names like it
- Compare Leigha and LeighannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLeigha peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leigha since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Leigha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leigha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.