Leigh meaning
Leigh is a name for either boys or girls, that means delicate or meadow.
An example of Leigh is the singer and songwriter, Leigh Nash, who sang with the band Sixpence None the Richer.
noun
A masculine and feminine name; var. Lee.
noun
A male given name, transferred from the surname.
pronoun
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A female given name, transferred from the surname.
pronoun
Origin of leigh
- From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground") from Old English lÄ“ah (“clearing in a forest") from Proto-Germanic *lauhÅ (“meadow"), from Proto-Indo-European *louk- (“field, meadow"). Akin to Old Frisian lÄch (“meadow"), Old Saxon lÅh (“forest, grove") (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket"); Dutch -lo (“used in placenames")), Old High German lÅh (“covered clearing, low bushes"), Old Norse lÅ (“clearing, meadow"). More at Waterloo.
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