girls:
262 births since 2009
#5454 (5th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2020
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
267 births since 2009
#7472 (3rd percentile)
The name Leightyn is the #7,472 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 267 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,454 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 262 births since 2009. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2020.
Leightyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for girls and 2020 for boys).
The name Leightyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leightyn reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #921) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Leightyn ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 92.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leightyn reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #901) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leightyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Leightyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Leightyn is pronounced as LAY-tihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAY-tuhn, at 37.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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