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Leightyn

Girl · LAY-tun · English

Leightyn is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “leek farm”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).

What does Leightyn mean?

English: spelling of Leighton, an English place-name surname

“leek farm”

A spelling of Leighton, from English places named with Old English leac 'leek' and tun 'farm'.

Say it
LAY-tun

Is Leightyn a girl's or a boy's name?

Leightyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Leightyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,858among girls
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 150,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 24% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Leightyn, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.

2025 had fewer girls named Leightyn than any year since 2009.

Half of all the girls named Leightyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,041 girls in the US were given Leightyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #324, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.

2009Busiest: 24 in 20202025
Leightyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202511#8,858
202418#6,391
202322#5,544
202219#6,224
202116#6,962
202024#5,165
201922#5,608
201821#5,781
201716#7,088
201615#7,599
201518#6,719
201417#6,985
201319#6,459
201217#7,140
201114#8,192
201015#7,877
20097#13,698

Names like Leightyn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Leightyn

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