Leigha
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 267 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,594since 1961
Leigha over time
Rank among girls' names. Leigha has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 |
| 2024 | #4,294 | 33 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 |
| 2022 | #2,956 | 56 |
| 2021 | #3,002 | 55 |
| 2020 | #2,156 | 84 |
| 2019 | #1,875 | 107 |
| 2018 | #1,878 | 107 |
| 2017 | #1,580 | 138 |
| 2016 | #1,614 | 136 |
| 2015 | #1,425 | 162 |
| 2014 | #1,291 | 184 |
| 2013 | #1,286 | 183 |
| 2012 | #1,077 | 231 |
| 2011 | #956 | 267 |
| 2010 | #1,059 | 234 |
| 2009 | #1,037 | 251 |
| 2008 | #1,133 | 227 |
| 2007 | #1,308 | 186 |
| 2006 | #1,275 | 188 |
| 2005 | #1,277 | 175 |
| 2004 | #1,220 | 182 |
| 2003 | #1,365 | 148 |
| 2002 | #1,275 | 154 |
| 2001 | #1,277 | 154 |
| 2000 | #1,245 | 157 |
| 1999 | #1,275 | 145 |
| 1998 | #1,533 | 109 |
| 1997 | #1,368 | 125 |
| 1996 | #1,446 | 113 |
| 1995 | #1,209 | 142 |
| 1994 | #1,304 | 130 |
| 1993 | #1,222 | 142 |
| 1992 | #1,284 | 133 |
| 1991 | #1,033 | 178 |
| 1990 | #1,072 | 165 |
| 1989 | #1,137 | 145 |
| 1988 | #1,269 | 115 |
| 1987 | #1,088 | 140 |
| 1986 | #1,346 | 97 |
| 1985 | #1,483 | 83 |
| 1984 | #1,388 | 84 |
| 1983 | #1,531 | 73 |
| 1982 | #1,384 | 88 |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 |
| 1980 | #1,735 | 64 |
| 1979 | #1,814 | 59 |
| 1978 | #2,125 | 44 |
| 1977 | #2,381 | 37 |
| 1976 | #2,792 | 27 |
| 1975 | #2,612 | 29 |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 |
| 1972 | #2,820 | 24 |
| 1971 | #3,508 | 18 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 |
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Leigha! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1963, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Leigha is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#282 · 1 in 1,091
- Arkansas#413 · 1 in 1,645
- Mississippi#475 · 1 in 1,855
- Kentucky#482 · 1 in 2,298
- Kansas#500 · 1 in 2,115
Best ever in a state: #246 in West Virginia, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #282 | 6 | 1 in 1,091 |
| Arkansas | #413 | 7 | 1 in 1,645 |
| Mississippi | #475 | 6 | 1 in 1,855 |
| Kentucky | #482 | 8 | 1 in 2,298 |
| Kansas | #500 | 6 | 1 in 2,115 |
| Louisiana | #501 | 9 | 1 in 2,170 |
| Ohio | #589 | 16 | 1 in 3,225 |
| Virginia | #594 | 12 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Missouri | #597 | 9 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Pennsylvania | #671 | 14 | 1 in 3,772 |
| Michigan | #692 | 11 | 1 in 3,765 |
| Tennessee | #706 | 8 | 1 in 3,701 |
| Oklahoma | #725 | 5 | 1 in 3,274 |
| Georgia | #731 | 13 | 1 in 3,670 |
| South Carolina | #732 | 5 | 1 in 3,493 |
| Illinois | #744 | 15 | 1 in 3,964 |
| Indiana | #796 | 7 | 1 in 4,335 |
| North Carolina | #806 | 10 | 1 in 4,416 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,796 |
| New Jersey | #901 | 7 | 1 in 5,280 |
| New York | #1,069 | 14 | 1 in 6,626 |
| Florida | #1,426 | 8 | 1 in 9,940 |
| Texas | #1,459 | 15 | 1 in 10,392 |
| California | #3,451 | 5 | 1 in 41,525 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Leigha
- 391 spots since 2024 (#4,294 → #3,903)
- 1,747 spots since 2020 (#2,156 → #3,903)
- 2,478 spots since 2015 (#1,425 → #3,903)
- Biggest jump: 103 spots in 2011 (#1,059 → #956)
- Biggest drop: 121 spots in 2012 (#956 → #1,077)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2011 at #956 (267 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2011
- Highest: 1 in 6,588 girls born in 2011 were named Leigha (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.6% of all girls named Leigha (1,822) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 91 | #2,396 (1969) | #4,157 |
| 1970s | 292 | #1,814 (1979) | #2,932 |
| 1980s | 954 | #1,088 (1987) | #1,410 |
| 1990s | 1,382 | #1,033 (1991) | #1,275 |
| 2000s | 1,822 | #1,037 (2009) | #1,241 |
| 2010s | 1,749 | #956 (2011) | #1,404 |
| 2020s | 304 | #2,156 (2020) | #3,357 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Leigha in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 6,588 of them was named Leigha, which outranked 95.1% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #952Janet269
- #952Juniper269
- #955Bree268
- #956Leigha267
- #956Aleigha267
- #956Analia267
- #956Carleigh267
- #961Malaysia266
- #961Pamela266
- #961Rivka266
Tied with 4 names at #956; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.