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leigh Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places (in at least sixteen counties, but especially Leigh in Lancashire) named either with the nominative case of Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’ (see Lee) or with leage, a late dative form of this word (see Lye).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the leigh family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of leigh Families in the US in 1920
Number of leigh families
 66-129
 23-65		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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