Leighton — #395 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Leighton

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,519 babies named Leighton between 1956 and 2024, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Leighton currently holds the #395 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 853 babies received it in a single year. Leighton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 9,201 additional births since 1893.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Leighton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,204 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Leighton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,438 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Leighton in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Leighton 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 11,519 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.