Leighton
86
Babies in 2024
-77%
10-year change
2013
Peak · 394
+10%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Leighton
Leighton has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 86 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 77% on a decade earlier.
Leighton reached its peak in 2013, when 394 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #150 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 22% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,225 boys have been officially registered with the name Leighton in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,869 boys were registered with the name, starting from 368 in 2014 and ending at 86 in 2024.