Leighana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- lee-AN-a
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Leighana is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “meadow + grace”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Leighana mean?
Modern: spelling of Leighanna; blend of Leigh and Anna
“meadow + grace”
Meaning borrowed from Leighanna.
Is Leighana a girl's or a boy's name?
Leighana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Leighana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Leighana, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.
2025 had more girls named Leighana than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Leighana in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 655 girls in the US were given Leighana or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #483, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Leighana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,798 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
Nicknames for Leighana
Names like Leighana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mckenna, Brynlee, Teagan, Kiara, Braelynn, Lyanna, Kianna, Cassidy, Briella, Kennedy, Brianna, Fiona
Other spellings of Leighana
Names related to Leighana
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Leighana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leighana, updated 20 October 2026.