Leigh - name meaning, origin

The boy's name Leigh \le(i)-gh\, also used as girl's name Leigh, is a variant of Farley (Old English), Finlay (Irish, Gaelic), Hadley (Old English) and Lee (Old English), and the meaning of Leigh is "meadow of the sheep; meadow of the bulls; fair-haired courageous one; heather meadow; pasture or meadow".

The baby name Leigh sounds like Le-, Leo, Lea, Le and Lew. Other similar baby names are Leith and Reigh.

Leigh is a somewhat common first name for men (#1127 out of 1220) and an even more common last name for both men and women (#3435 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

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