Is Leigh a male or female name?
Leigh is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 89% and male usage in Ireland at 58%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 88%
- Sample size
- 49,895
- Confidence
- high
Leigh by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 89% | 45,321 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 82% | 3,495 | nrs |
| Ireland IE | male | 58% | 666 | cso |
| Canada CA | female | 90% | 351 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | female | 60% | 35 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 56% | 25 | pesel |
| Austria AT | male | 100% | 2 | statat |
Attested in 61 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AG · AT · AU · BB · BD · BE · BI · BW · BZ · CA · CB · CH · CM · CY · DM · ER · ES · FJ · GB · GD · GH · GY · IE · JM · KE · KI · KN · LC · LR · LS · ME · MH · MT · MU · MW · NA · NG · NR · NZ · PG · PH · PL · PW · RS · RW · SB · SC · SE · SL · SZ · TO · TT · TV · UG · US · VC · VU · WS · ZA · ZM · ZW
Leigh over time
In the United States, 18.1% of the babies named Leigh in the 1910s were girls, against 90.9% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 18% | 270 |
| 1920s | 21% | 472 |
| 1930s | 24% | 537 |
| 1940s | 50% | 1,590 |
| 1950s | 81% | 5,024 |
| 1960s | 93% | 11,476 |
| 1970s | 95% | 12,012 |
| 1980s | 94% | 9,051 |
| 1990s | 95% | 3,155 |
| 2000s | 92% | 837 |
| 2010s | 92% | 555 |
| 2020s | 91% | 243 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Leigh with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Leigh
Is Leigh a male or female name?
Leigh is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 89% and male usage in Ireland at 58%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Leigh change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Leigh identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.