Ava-Leigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AY-va-LEE
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,076 for girls
Ava-Leigh is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “Ava + meadow”. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies).
What does Ava-Leigh mean?
Modern: combination of Ava and Leigh
“Ava + meadow”
Leigh comes from an Old English word for a woodland clearing or meadow.
Is Ava-Leigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Ava-Leigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ava-Leigh in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,076th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 20,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 29% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Ava-Leigh, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,389th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 39 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Ava-Leigh than any year since 2009.
Half of all the girls named Ava-Leigh in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were given Ava-Leigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,459, up from #2,076 for this spelling alone.
- Ava-Leigh 14
- Ava-Lee 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.
Ava-Leigh in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2024 | 20 | #1,592 |
| 2023 | 21 | #1,560 |
| 2022 | 36 | #1,027 |
| 2021 | 34 | #1,078 |
| 2020 | 24 | #1,389 |
| 2019 | 29 | #1,220 |
| 2018 | 25 | #1,375 |
| 2017 | 39 | #1,009 |
| 2016 | 32 | #1,162 |
| 2015 | 34 | #1,108 |
| 2014 | 33 | #1,131 |
| 2013 | 29 | #1,261 |
| 2012 | 27 | #1,293 |
| 2011 | 26 | #1,303 |
| 2010 | 15 | #1,912 |
| 2009 | 13 | #2,037 |
Names like Ava-Leigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Delilah, Aurora, Nevaeh, Evelyn, Myla, Athena, Aria, Eden, Autumn, Ada, Elodie, Arabella
Other spellings of Ava-Leigh
Ava-Lee
Names related to Ava-Leigh
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Kayden, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn, Ailani
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ava-Leigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ava-leigh, updated 20 October 2026.