Leigh is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Leigh is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Leigh. In the SmartGenius ranking, Leigh is #2,844 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 38,170 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Leigh. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With five letters, the name Leigh is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Leigh and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Leigh, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Igloo
Goat
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leigh
Leigh
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
I
G
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
E
I
G
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Leigh sounds like this:
