Leigh Boy Name

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The name Leigh is of English origin, and means meadow. The table below indicates the number of times the name Leigh has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Leigh**
Use of the Name Leigh for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
3,031	1,404	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Leigh has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Leigh first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1885, which is the first year shown on the table. Leigh last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1996, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Leigh**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1885	808	7
1886	731	8
1887	881	6
1888	878	7
1889
1890
1891
1892	773	9
1893
1894	826	8
1895	838	8
1896	940	7
1897	831	8
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928	985	49
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935	950	45
1936	829	54
1937	820	56
1938	851	54
1939	989	42
1940	770	65
1941	822	60
1942	765	70
1943	743	76
1944	805	61
1945	695	77	881	74
1946	707	85	722	125
1947	680	104	822	114
1948	696	93	782	121
1949	674	103	651	163
1950	769	80	657	169
1951	763	84	641	184
1952	697	101	651	188
1953	698	103	564	241
1954	731	97	497	320
1955	653	126	406	463
1956	743	98	353	611
1957	828	84	365	616
1958	791	89	367	619
1959	844	81	369	672
1960	854	79	344	770
1961	849	82	326	841
1962	873	76	314	892
1963	865	76	296	982
1964	876	76	279	1,049
1965	950	60	308	865
1966	877	69	266	972
1967	779	88	218	1,343
1968	818	82	211	1,426
1969	876	77	202	1,564
1970	865	87	213	1,484
1971	951	74	213	1,420
1972			229	1,210
1973			239	1,078
1974			206	1,222
1975			228	1,064
1976			256	931
1977			259	952
1978			258	916
1979			231	1,128
1980			218	1,174
1981			230	1,097
1982			258	957
1983			272	863
1984			271	882
1985			312	772
1986			335	719
1987			357	666
1988			345	713
1989			409	605
1990			468	523
1991			525	445
1992			556	424
1993			617	370
1994			721	288
1995			848	230
1996			899	219
Totals:		3,031		37,736

During the last 125 years, parents have used Leigh as a boy's name about 7% of the time and more frequently (about 92% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Leigh appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 47 times during the last 125 years.

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