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Updated March 27, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Aborigine : Boomerang
  • Old English : Glade
  • Gaelic : Poet
  • English : Sheltered from the storm
  • Irish : Poetic
  • Chinese : Plum
  • Old English : Meadow

Girl name variations

Kylie

Kylie

+ 20% this year
Neutral
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Kayleigh

Kayleigh

- 22% this year
Feminine
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Kay

Kay

+ 10% this year
Neutral
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Kayle

Kayle

- 5% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Lee

Lee

+ 3% this year
Neutral
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Lea

Lea

- 5% this year
Feminine
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Leanne

Leanne

+ 14% this year
Feminine
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Leeanne

Leeanne

+ 56% this year
Feminine
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Leigh Anne

Leigh Anne

0 % this year
Feminine
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Li

Li

- 14% this year
Neutral
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Ly

Ly

+ 60% this year
Feminine
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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Heather meadow
  • Irish : The narrows; a place where cattle graze; a wood; a church
  • Scottish : From a narrow strait; the name of a Scottish region
  • Old English : One from the meadow farm
  • Old English : Glade
  • Gaelic : Poet
  • Chinese : Plum
  • Old English : Dweller by the deer meadow

Boy name variations

Hadley

Hadley

+ 2% this year
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Had

Had

0 % this year
Masculine
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Hadlea

Hadlea

0 % this year
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Hadlee

Hadlee

- 15% this year
Neutral
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Hadleigh

Hadleigh

- 7% this year
Neutral
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Hadly

Hadly

0 % this year
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Kyle

Kyle

- 10% this year
Neutral
Uncommon
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Kylie

Kylie

+ 20% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Kyleigh

Kyleigh

- 24% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Lei

Lei

+ 20% this year
Neutral
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Kyli

Kyli

+ 13% this year
Masculine
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Layton

Layton

- 2% this year
Masculine
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Leighton

Leighton

+ 3% this year
Neutral
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Lay

Lay

0 % this year
Masculine
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Layland

Layland

0 % this year
Masculine
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Lee

Lee

+ 3% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Raleigh

Raleigh

- 9% this year
Neutral
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Rawley

Rawley

+ 64% this year
Neutral
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Rawly

Rawly

0 % this year
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Rawls

Rawls

0 % this year
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How Popular Is The Name Leigh

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the numerous places (in at least sixteen counties, but especially Leigh in Lancashire) named either with the nominative case of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’ (see Lee) or with lēage, a late dative form of this word (see Lye).

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