Whitleigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- WIT-lee
- Origin
- Old English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,660 for girls
Whitleigh is a girls' name of Old English origin, meaning “white clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 4,660th for girls in the US (29 babies).
What does Whitleigh mean?
Old English: variant of Whitley, an English place and surname
“white clearing”
Is Whitleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Whitleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 29 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Whitleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,660th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 29 about 1 in 55,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 54% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 29 girls in the US were named Whitleigh, making it the 4,660th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. It first appears in the records in 1988.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had the most girls named Whitleigh of any year since it first appeared, in 1988.
Half of all the girls named Whitleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 498 girls in the US were given Whitleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #596, up from #4,660 for this spelling alone.
Whitleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,297 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,982 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
Names like Whitleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Wrenley, Brynlee, Rynlee, Oaklynn, Sevyn, Lakelynn, Lennon, Braelynn, Teagan, Briar, Finley, Collins
Other spellings of Whitleigh
More Old English names
Alfie, Edward, Teddy, Waylon, Alfred, Audrey, Edith, Wilfred, Ozzy, Edie, Eddie, Edwin, Ted, Teddie, Eduardo, Edgar
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, “Whitleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/whitleigh, updated 20 October 2026.