Fun Facts About the Name Analeigh
- More than 1 thousand babies named Analeigh: U.S. records list 1,753 babies given the name Analeigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Analeigh Mean?
Analeigh is a modern English compound name, formed by joining Anna (or Ana) with the ending -leigh. Anna comes from the Hebrew name Hannah (חַנָּה), meaning "grace" or "favor." The -leigh element comes from the Old English word lēah, "meadow" or "woodland clearing," which also underlies the surname and place-name Leigh. Read component by component, the name joins "grace" and "meadow," often rendered as "grace of the meadow." Because Analeigh is a modern combination of two familiar elements rather than a name with a single documented origin, that combined meaning is a customary reading of its parts, not a historical translation inherited from an older language.
Analeigh Name History & Origins
Analeigh belongs to a group of English given names built from a traditional element plus a -leigh, -lee, or -ley ending. The Anna part has been used in English since the Middle Ages, and Leigh and Lee have long histories as English surnames derived from Old English lēah. Names pairing the two, spelled Annaleigh and Analeigh, are characteristic of late 20th- and early 21st-century naming in the United States and other English-speaking countries. The -leigh spelling of the ending is the newer, more decorative form of an element usually written -ley or -lee in earlier English.
The American actress and model Analeigh Tipton (born 1988) is a well-known bearer of the name. Names with a similar structure exist in other languages - the German and Scandinavian Annelie and the German Anneliese (Anna plus a form of Elizabeth) - but these are separate names with their own histories, and their resemblance to Analeigh does not indicate a shared origin.
How Popular is the Name Analeigh?
Analeigh has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2009. Its best rank was #1,241 in 2009.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,784 | 39 | 0.0024% |
| 2024 | #3,506 | 44 | 0.0027% |
| 2023 | #3,914 | 38 | 0.0024% |
| 2022 | #3,032 | 54 | 0.0033% |
| 2021 | #2,850 | 59 | 0.0036% |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 | 0.0038% |
| 2019 | #2,708 | 63 | 0.0038% |
| 2018 | #2,362 | 77 | 0.0045% |
| 2017 | #2,510 | 71 | 0.0041% |
| 2016 | #2,017 | 98 | 0.0055% |
| 2015 | #2,212 | 85 | 0.0048% |
| 2014 | #1,736 | 120 | 0.0067% |
| 2013 | #1,705 | 122 | 0.0070% |
| 2012 | #1,706 | 122 | 0.0069% |
| 2011 | #1,640 | 131 | 0.0074% |
| 2010 | #1,621 | 133 | 0.0075% |
| 2009 | #1,241 | 199 | 0.0108% |
| 2008 | #2,804 | 64 | 0.0034% |
| 2007 | #5,538 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2006 | #6,876 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2005 | #7,171 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2004 | #7,422 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2003 | #4,682 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2002 | #7,070 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2001 | #7,761 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1999 | #6,208 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1998 | #14,270 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1997 | #10,927 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1996 | #8,858 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1994 | #11,861 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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