Leigh

girls:

40.2k births since 1912

#672 (88th percentile)

boys:

5.1k births since 1882

#1679 (63rd percentile)

overall:

45.3k births since 1882

#1153 (85th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leigh".

1882 2023 18822023

Key Statistics

Total Births
40,165
Peak Births
1,563
Peak Year
1969
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
74.0%
Current Percentile
3.4%
Peak Rank
#199
Current Rank
#915
Female statistics
Total Births
5,107
Peak Births
126
Peak Year
1955
First Recorded
1882
Peak Percentile
18.5%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#202
Current Rank
#911
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Leigh

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Leigh. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Leigh is pronounced as lee.

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lee (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
L IY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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lee (1 syllable)
3 names 296.8k births
L IY0

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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.