How popular is “Leigh” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leigh” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Leigh” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Leigh” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Leigh” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Leigh” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Leigh” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leigh” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1882	5	0.00002257		5	-100%
1885	7	0.000029063		7	-100%
1886	8	0.000031334		8	-100%
1887	6	0.000024253		6	-100%
1888	7	0.000023374		7	-100%
1891	5	0.000017441		5	-100%
1892	9	0.000026916		9	-100%
1894	8	0.00002362		8	-100%
1895	8	0.000022791		8	-100%
1896	7	0.000019581		7	-100%
1897	8	0.000023058		8	-100%
1899	5	0.000014739		5	-100%
1906	5	0.00001167		5	-100%
1907	6	0.000012892		6	-100%
1908	5	0.000010232		5	-100%
1910	6	0.000010157		6	-100%
1911	9	0.000013969		9	-100%
1912	27	0.000027326	9	18	-33%
1913	17	0.00001495		17	-100%
1914	20	0.000014121	5	15	-50%
1915	37	0.000020192	6	31	-68%
1916	26	0.000013441	5	21	-62%
1917	42	0.000020929	10	32	-52%
1918	38	0.000017503	7	31	-63%
1919	48	0.000022746	7	41	-71%
1920	42	0.000018562	9	33	-57%
1921	43	0.000018419	11	32	-49%
1922	38	0.0000166	9	29	-53%
1923	53	0.000023019	12	41	-55%
1924	55	0.000023094	13	42	-53%
1925	46	0.000019715	9	37	-61%
1926	49	0.000021342	13	36	-47%
1927	51	0.000021989	10	41	-61%
1928	55	0.000024326	6	49	-78%
1929	40	0.000018247	9	31	-55%
1930	48	0.00002159	13	35	-46%
1931	52	0.00002471	17	35	-35%
1932	39	0.000018472	10	29	-49%
1933	30	0.000015004	8	22	-47%
1934	46	0.000022149	9	37	-61%
1935	54	0.000025839	9	45	-67%
1936	63	0.000030324	9	54	-71%
1937	69	0.000032384	12	57	-65%
1938	76	0.000034349	22	54	-42%
1939	60	0.00002723	18	42	-40%
1940	93	0.000040388	28	65	-40%
1941	95	0.000038992	35	60	-26%
1942	120	0.000043927	51	69	-15%
1943	112	0.00003968	35	77	-38%
1944	108	0.000040148	45	63	-17%
1945	152	0.000057296	74	78	-3%
1946	209	0.000065408	124	85	19%
1947	219	0.000060794	114	105	4%
1948	215	0.000062273	122	93	13%
1949	267	0.000076619	163	104	22%
1950	246	0.000070218	166	80	35%
1951	267	0.000072481	184	83	38%
1952	291	0.000076619	190	101	31%
1953	345	0.000089526	241	104	40%
1954	417	0.000104755	319	98	53%
1955	586	0.00014595	460	126	57%
1956	709	0.000171961	611	98	72%
1957	701	0.00016682	617	84	76%
1958	711	0.000171992	622	89	75%
1959	751	0.000180616	671	80	79%
1960	850	0.000204631	770	80	81%
1961	924	0.000223064	843	81	82%
1962	968	0.000239879	891	77	84%
1963	1056	0.000266788	980	76	86%
1964	1126	0.000289638	1050	76	87%
1965	928	0.000255968	868	60	87%
1966	1043	0.000300087	972	71	86%
1967	1430	0.00042122	1342	88	88%
1968	1508	0.000446363	1426	82	89%
1969	1640	0.000471899	1563	77	91%
1970	1570	0.000435323	1483	87	89%
1971	1498	0.000436435	1424	74	90%
1972	1270	0.000404073	1210	60	91%
1973	1126	0.000373232	1078	48	91%
1974	1262	0.000415132	1225	37	94%
1975	1121	0.000371267	1064	57	90%
1976	984	0.000324292	930	54	89%
1977	1016	0.000319849	954	62	88%
1978	971	0.000305936	916	55	89%
1979	1193	0.000358581	1127	66	89%
1980	1241	0.000360284	1178	63	90%
1981	1179	0.000340813	1100	79	87%
1982	1038	0.000295898	959	79	85%
1983	921	0.000265928	863	58	87%
1984	947	0.000271444	883	64	86%
1985	831	0.000232831	773	58	86%
1986	769	0.000216189	718	51	87%
1987	724	0.000200798	668	56	85%
1988	757	0.000204869	714	43	89%
1989	643	0.000167254	603	40	88%
1990	550	0.000139153	522	28	90%
1991	478	0.000122713	445	33	86%
1992	446	0.000116107	423	23	90%
1993	384	0.000101849	372	12	94%
1994	301	0.000080965	287	14	91%
1995	246	0.000067174	230	16	87%
1996	230	0.000063062	219	11	90%
1997	205	0.00005654	191	14	86%
1998	156	0.000042412	147	9	88%
1999	160	0.000043315	149	11	86%
2000	137	0.000036244	123	14	80%
2001	127	0.000033926	116	11	83%
2002	91	0.000024343	83	8	82%
2003	89	0.000023407	83	6	87%
2004	81	0.000021199	74	7	83%
2005	69	0.000017946	63	6	83%
2006	63	0.000015924	63		100%
2007	52	0.000013008	45	7	73%
2008	62	0.000015773	57	5	84%
2009	66	0.000017277	61	5	85%
2010	58	0.000015694	50	8	72%
2011	44	0.000012029	44		100%
2012	45	0.000012304	39	6	73%
2013	49	0.000013441	49		100%
2014	64	0.000017268	56	8	75%
2015	54	0.000014591	47	7	74%
2016	70	0.00001908	64	6	83%
2017	59	0.000016498	59		100%
2018	54	0.000015359	46	8	70%
2019	59	0.000016998	59		100%
2020	47	0.000014069	38	9	62%
2021	44	0.000012987	44		100%
2022	64	0.000018917	56	8	75%
2023	43	0.000012986	38	5	77%
2024	46	0.00001382	46		100%

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