Name

Name LEIGHTON

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 20,075 births of Leighton in the countries below, which represents an average of 141 births of children bearing the first name Leighton per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 1,227 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Leighton
In Italiano

Nome Leighton

Available variant : Léighton

Information about the first name Leighton

The first name Leighton has been assigned to:

53.55% to boys
46.45% to girls

The country where the first name Leighton is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Both (Unisex)

This first name has 8 letters including 3 vowels and 5 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Leighton

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Leighton : Heligton, Lieghton

Leighton in Japanese ^*

Romaji	riiton
Katakana	リートン
Hiragana	りーとん
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Leighton in sign language

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Leighton in binary language

01101100 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101111 01101110

Origin and meaning of name Leighton

English

Etymology

Various place names in England, Old English leac (“leek”) + tun (“settlement”), also in the sense of a herb garden.

Anagrams

hoteling

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /ˈleɪtən/
Homophone: Leyton

Proper noun

Leighton
A habitational surname from Old English.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A small village in Forden, Leighton and Trelystan community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2405).
Leighton Township, a township in Allegan County, Michigan, United States.

Proper noun (Derived terms)

Leighton Buzzard
Leighton-Linslade

Proper noun (Usage notes)

More common as a feminine name in the United States. But in the UK it is more masculine.

Popularity of the name Leighton

Number of LEIGHTON births per year

Popularity of the name Leighton

Total births of Leighton by country

		Births with the first name Leighton
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	4,225 8,887
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2021	4,957 33
	New Zealand 1900 - 2022	814 0
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	159 146
	Ontario 1913 - 2019	111 171
	Ireland 1964 - 2022	281 0
	Australia 1930 - 2022	136 3
	British Columbia 1919 - 2022	40 68
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	20 11
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	3 3
	Germany 2000 - 2022	1 2
	Denmark 1985 - 2022	1 1
	Sweden 1998 - 2022	2 0

Popularity of the name Leighton

Total births of Leighton by country (last available year)

		Births with the first name Leighton
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 2022	260 810
	United Kingdom 2021	102 0
	Ireland 2022	18 0
	Ontario 2019	0 17
	Alberta 2022	6 8
	British Columbia 2022	0 5
	Quebec 2022	1 0