Name meaning & stats
Leigh
Leigh means “meadow, clearing”. 43,971 US babies since 1940, peak 1969.
What it means
“meadow, clearing”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1969
43,971 US babies were named Leigh between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Leigh (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1969)