Fun Facts About the Name Lileigh
- 277 babies named Lileigh: U.S. records list 277 babies given the name Lileigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Lileigh Mean?
Lileigh is generally treated as a modern spelling of Lily, and its core meaning is "lily flower." That meaning comes from Latin lilium, the word for the lily, which was borrowed from Greek leirion; the English flower word lily descends from the same Latin source. The final -leigh is not part of the flower word. It is a respelling that echoes the Old English element lēah, meaning "wood," "clearing," or "meadow," which survives in English place names and surnames such as Leigh. In Lileigh the ending works mainly as a spelling choice, so the name is not normally read as a literal compound meaning "lily meadow."
Lileigh Name History & Origins
Lily has two strands of use in English. From the sixteenth century it appears as a pet form of Elizabeth, alongside such short forms as Bess, Beth, and Eliza. It also came into use as a given name taken directly from the flower word lily, which English inherited from Latin lilium. The related name Lillian, from Medieval Latin Liliana, is sometimes linked to Elizabeth and sometimes to the flower, so the exact relationship among Lily, Lillian, and Elizabeth is not fully settled.
Lileigh belongs to a modern pattern of English spelling variants in which a familiar name is rewritten with the ending -leigh, as in Kayleigh, Ashleigh, and Ryleigh. That ending recalls the Old English lēah found in place names and surnames like Leigh and Ashley, but in present-day given names it functions chiefly as a stylistic respelling. Lileigh is therefore best understood as part of this modern spelling trend rather than as an older traditional form with its own separate history.
How Popular is the Name Lileigh?
Lileigh 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 2011. Its best rank was #6,054 in 2011.
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 | #14,201 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #12,860 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #8,825 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #11,723 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #7,973 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2018 | #9,538 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2017 | #6,696 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2016 | #9,794 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #6,878 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2014 | #6,121 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2013 | #6,901 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2012 | #10,918 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #6,054 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2010 | #7,382 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2009 | #6,709 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2008 | #6,715 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2007 | #7,937 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2006 | #10,322 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2005 | #9,853 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2004 | #15,273 | 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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