Leigha
Leigha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. Its best rank was 959th, in 2011.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2011267 births
- Best rank
- #959in 2011
- Since 1961
- 6,556people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,556 girls have been named Leigha in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 267 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 28%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2011, its biggest year
Leigha was the 959th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2011 were Sophia, Isabella, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Leigha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Andrayapeak 2013
- Amberlynpeak 2011
- Janessapeak 2009
- Leighannapeak 2008
- Joslinpeak 2010
- Jessalynpeak 2001
- Caliepeak 2008
- Kaydeepeak 2009
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.