Leigha

Where Leigha comes from

Leigha hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1961
    First appearance
    #5,851 among girls, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,878.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.