Nova-Leigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Latin
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,675 for girls
Nova-Leigh is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “new + wood, meadow”. In 2025 it ranked 2,675th for girls in the UK (10 babies).
What does Nova-Leigh mean?
Latin: Nova + Leigh
“new + wood, meadow”
Joins Nova (Latin, “new”) and Leigh (“wood, meadow”).
Meanings borrowed from Nova and Leigh.
Is Nova-Leigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Nova-Leigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nova-Leigh in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,675among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 28,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 150% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were named Nova-Leigh, making it the 2,675th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 33 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Nova-Leigh than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Nova-Leigh in the UK since 1996 were born between 2021 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were given Nova-Leigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,870, up from #2,675 for this spelling alone.
- Nova-Leigh 10
- Novaleigh 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,603rd in England and Wales.
Nova-Leigh in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #2,675 |
| 2024 | 12 | #2,323 |
| 2023 | 33 | #1,107 |
| 2022 | 20 | #1,591 |
| 2021 | 13 | #2,202 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
Names like Nova-Leigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nova Nora Eden Fiadh Kiara Maeve Maeva Aurora Clara Orla Rosie Delilah
Other spellings of Nova-Leigh
More Latin names
Oliver Olivia Leo Roman Emily Florence Mabel Luna Emilia Max Lucy Julian Anthony Austin Felix Camila
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, “Nova-Leigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nova-leigh, updated 20 October 2026.