Leigha

Where Leigha comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Leigha.

  • Vowel-ended
Leigha through the years
  1. 1961
    First appearance
    #5,851 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Leigha Hancock born
    Stuntwoman
  3. 2000
    Leigha Brown born
    American basketball player
  4. 2011
    Peak, #956
    267 babies named Leigha, the most in any year.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,878.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Leigha Hancock · Stuntwoman, born 1986
  • Leigha Brown · American basketball player, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.