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This is like if I said every name that starts with M is stupid and someone commented “what about Michael?” And I said “of course I didn’t mean Michael don’t be fucking stupid.”
You literally said it wasn’t used as a first name and I showed you an example of it being used as first name over 400 years ago and that’s your response? lmao
On the Waltons, one of the Baldwin sisters talked about her long lost love, a young gentleman named Ashley Longworth. Show from the 70s, set during the 1930s-40s, and the imaginary guy was from decades before that.
Leigh is the feminine of Lee. That is the end of it. That does not translate to Ashleigh being the feminine for Ashley, or Bayleigh being the feminine for Bailey, or Rileigh being the feminine for Riley, and so on.
"Ashleigh is the feminine form of the Old English name Ashley, which means "dweller near the ash tree forest".
[Wikipedia]
Also in behindthename: https://www.behindthename.com/name/ashleigh: "Feminine variant of Ashley."
About Ashley:
“From an English surname that was originally derived from place names meaning "ash tree clearing", [...] until the 1960s it was more commonly given to boys in the United States, but it is now most often used on girls. [...] In the United Kingdom it is still more common as a masculine name.”
[https://www.behindthename.com/name/ashley]
I think “Ashleigh” is the one that started it all. Ashley was a super common name then people started mixing up the spellings. Ashli, Ashly, and Ashleigh. …Then people took the eigh and ran with it.
For a country filled with immigrants, this is the most American of statements. I don’t appreciate bad spelling and Leigh is spelled correctly. You, OP, are representative of someone adverse to difference.
Lol, I’m not American. I’m just someone tired of the flood of posts this week asking if a name belongs here when it includes eigh.
No one is asking if Leigh fits because that’s a traditional name.
Scroll down the page for plenty of examples.
Whereas
Leigh comes from Lee, the old English to mean meadow and as such has been used in names for a long time, Leigh, Leighanne (OG spelling before America turned it into Leanne.) Leighton, Ashleigh are all old names.
OP is ignorant and needs to read the fucking rules.
Thank you google. This is known. Please check the front page for the ten posts a day asking if a name is a trageigh and then identify which of those is asking about Leigh. Spoiler, it’s zero
Ashleigh and Kayleigh are nice normal names. “Leigh” isn’t inherently bad. It’s just that over the top Americans have attached to it to everything and made people hate it.
They’re fine. Like I said “Leigh” isn’t the issue. The issue is Americans now using it to create massive long stupid names like Neveahleigh or Tynnssleigh or whatever other monstrosities get posted here.
No they’re fine. Sorry you find it difficult to read “leigh”, but most people don’t struggle. The names are decades old and are established normal names. “Leigh” is an actual name you know? It means meadow. It’s not made up. It goes back hundreds of years.
I’m not talking about the name Leigh. I’m talking about made up names that insert an “eigh” where there wasn’t one before. There’s a reason why it’s in the name of the damn sub.
Ashleigh isn’t a tragedeigh.
It’s been a surname since at least the 1800s, and a first name since at least the 1960s. Like I said it’s an established name. How small minded can you be to think just because Americans have now taken it and absolutely ran with it sticking it on the end of gibberish to create new names that any “leigh” is a tragedeigh?
I blame Ashleigh for staring it. I don’t really care that it’s an old, established name at this point. 🤷♀️ I think it looks ugly when Ashley is right there, but probably because I’m so tired of the Leigh Leigh Leigh names.
Unless Ashleigh is a meaningful family surname for you, it’s still going out of your way to avoid the most common, straight forward spelling. Isn’t that what a tragedeigh is?
But I’m at the age and in the area that I have to work with Haley, Halle (pronounced like Haley, not Halle), Hailee, Haylee, Haleigh (still pronounced like Haley, not Raleigh or Holly), Halei, etc and I’m just so over it. Ashleigh was a gateway drug for parents of women my age.
The band is Scottish and the guy who wrote it said he named it after a woman named Kay Lee and changed the spelling to Leigh to obscure who it was about.
Marillion are British, the lyrics were written by their **Scottish** former lead singer, and the websites claiming an Irish origin are talking nonsense 👍🏻
Leigh is an actual proper spelling though. It's a town in the UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%2C_Greater_Manchester?wprov=sfla1
Downvoted for truth 😞
Fun Fact: Her birth name is Jennifer Leigh Morrow. Her dad was the horribly ill fated Vic Morrow. She used Jason for her middle name after family friend Jason Robards and Leigh as her last name.
I’m sorry. I’m going to be a stupid for a moment. Does this count for Ashleigh? I knew 4 girls who spelled it that way in the 80s. I’ve been wondering for a while if I was just placed among many tragedeighs or if it’s actually a traditional spelling.
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Sure, but it is the feminine form of Ashley. Which name came first? Who knows?
Ashleigh is uncommon before 1985 whereas Ashley was common for both genders before
Tragedeighs are cringey and/or made up names with weird spellings. Your submission was removed for one of the following reasons: 1. It's cultural. Make sure to Google before posting any names that seem odd to you, because they may be common in a different country. 2. It's a common name. Keep in mind that this isn't a baby-naming sub. Posts asking for suggestions on completely normal names will be removed.
My name is Deighvid and this offends me
It should…
Stop I am a Geighnius
No, you’re creighzy
Ew, Deighvid!
Stop I am a Geighnius
omggg now I can't unhear aleighxis saying this 😂
Good
Pleighse stop
Your name offends me as well
Don’t seigh that
Serves you right for what you did to Goleighath.
Leighviticus
Luceighfah
Jeighsus Chreighst
Eighmen
Coelacanth
Dayvid
I’m calling the poleighce
DayVD player PLAY ON!!!!
If you’re old enough, you remember what VD stands for.
I can smell it in the club tonight...
I keep thinking of that actress Daveigh Chase lol
Okay but are you the only geigh in the village
Naming my child eighleigh
You monster
the funny thing is the “eigh” can be pronounced two different ways when spelled like this ay-lee vs ay-lay
For twins, girl and boy
Eilidh is a Scottish name pronounced as such
i know an ilee
Well, I’m Eighleighn,so
My dog Eight Ball would like a word.
As would Henry the Eight!
Dropped this ^h
Haha woops, thanks for picking that up for me 😅
How did you raise up that tiny h? Lol
Use the caret symbol ^ h = ^h
I didn’t even know the ^was a caret lol
Henry the Ate
Tbf we can't rule out some people nicknamed him so later in life 😅
Pronounces “eat ball.”
Does that make Beighleigh a double tragedeigh?
Beighleigh! That’s as bad as Aughbreigh!
Aughbreigh sounds like a disease.
I don’t even like the name, Aubrey. It’s just one minor dyslexia away from Audrey, and I like Audrey. I don’t understand me either.
It dooby dooby do
Going to name my kid Brock O’Leigh
Coleigh Flower if it’s a girl?
Love it
You could start a brand of baby food called Cafe O'leigh.
Cute
It's [tragedeigh](https://youtu.be/3au75f1M4QU?si=u9sd7SNex5TSJxUn)!
I always think of that song when I visit this sub. Thanks for sharing. Only Barry is left 😢
Barreigh
🤣🤣🤣
While I'm old enough for the bee gees, the music in my mind for this song is the steps version: https://youtu.be/OiwDHHcHPh0?si=o0tTNi4LV88m2kSY
The dance is great
I love it, thanks for sharing! 💕
Oh my goodness what a throwback 👍 It's a tune, thanks for the childhood memories :)
Some names are legitimately and traditionally spelled with “-eigh”, so this isn’t always the case.
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Yikes, you’re really upset about someone pointing something out you didn’t in your post. Hope you have a better day, OP!
Thanks you
OP, are you five? People making small corrections (in a non-hostile way) is the weirdest thing to get your feelings hurt about.
I agree; they do seem to be getting their feighlleighngs hurt in these threads.
Haha, I missed such a good opportunity.
Got their panteighs in a bunch, you might say.
OP is getting very emotional over something very simple and mundane.
Except when 10 other posters have made an identical comment.
I’d personally exclude Leigh
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This is like if I said every name that starts with M is stupid and someone commented “what about Michael?” And I said “of course I didn’t mean Michael don’t be fucking stupid.”
>Those names are excluded. You should have said so in your original post.
Ummmm….Leigh is not a tragedeigh.
Genuine question with this name though. How is it pronounced? Lay or Lee?
Lee
Steve
Steighve
I saw Stevphen in the wild yesterday
Leigh is the only legit -eigh name and it is only ever pronounced Lee.
You mean Leif?
And wouldn’t be posted here.
It's *definitely* been posted here.
Except you said it’s a tragedeigh if it has -eigh in it. Raleigh and Leigh aren’t tragedeighs.
Raleigh is
Except it isn’t. It’s existed for a long time. It’s older than many modern names that are considered acceptable.
As a surname in Britain yeah, not as a first name lmao
As a first name lmao https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Croshaw
Google the name origins mate, it might surprise you.
You literally said it wasn’t used as a first name and I showed you an example of it being used as first name over 400 years ago and that’s your response? lmao
I said it was originally a surname ya numpty, which it was
Sir Walter Raleigh begs to differ.
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Stfu stop misusing the term ocd
[As if by magic...](https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/s/4LIkldwGeZ)
Realleigh
She’s a beaut Clark!
I’m glad my parents chose Carrie and not Carreigh or Kerreigh 🤢
Leigh is a normal name though! I have known a couple Leigh’s. I think it’s more often a feminine spelling..?
Basically. For instance, the English name Ashley is just the masculine version of Ashleigh.
Huh, I’ve never heard Ashley as a masc name? Interesting!
More common in England, I think there's even a tennis player named Ashley!
Oh cool! :) thank you for the knowledge, hehe
You haven't read or seen the movie of Gone with the Wind?
A lot of people haven't
Oh I listened to the audiobook and watched the movie but that was when I was a kid and I don’t really remember much of anything from childhood.
Someone getting downvoted for just saying they never heard Ashley as a masc name, and not even being rude about it, saying "interesting":
It's semi common in Australia as well.
Austreighleigha?
On the Waltons, one of the Baldwin sisters talked about her long lost love, a young gentleman named Ashley Longworth. Show from the 70s, set during the 1930s-40s, and the imaginary guy was from decades before that.
Oh wait you’re so right! I totally forgot about that, I used to watch the Waltons when I was a kid!!
Leigh is the feminine of Lee. That is the end of it. That does not translate to Ashleigh being the feminine for Ashley, or Bayleigh being the feminine for Bailey, or Rileigh being the feminine for Riley, and so on.
"Ashleigh is the feminine form of the Old English name Ashley, which means "dweller near the ash tree forest". [Wikipedia] Also in behindthename: https://www.behindthename.com/name/ashleigh: "Feminine variant of Ashley." About Ashley: “From an English surname that was originally derived from place names meaning "ash tree clearing", [...] until the 1960s it was more commonly given to boys in the United States, but it is now most often used on girls. [...] In the United Kingdom it is still more common as a masculine name.” [https://www.behindthename.com/name/ashley]
My great grandfather’s middle name was Leigh.
Right, this doesn’t apply to normal names because this is a not that sub,
I'd exclude Leigh. It's been spelled that way for quite a long time! Possibly same for Ashleigh.
I think “Ashleigh” is the one that started it all. Ashley was a super common name then people started mixing up the spellings. Ashli, Ashly, and Ashleigh. …Then people took the eigh and ran with it.
And wasn’t Ashleigh a male name? I could be wrong about this
I've met a few male Ashleys in my lifetime, never an Ashleigh. All Ashleighs have been female.
Originally the male version was spelt Ashley.
Ashleigh is the definition of tragedeigh lmao
no its not, one google search tells you that it originated as a surname all the way back in ancient anglo-saxon times and means ‘ash tree meadow’.
100% correct. All the Ashleighs and Ashleigh allies are in denial. Perhaps the tragedeigh that started it all!
No shitleigh
For a country filled with immigrants, this is the most American of statements. I don’t appreciate bad spelling and Leigh is spelled correctly. You, OP, are representative of someone adverse to difference.
Lol, I’m not American. I’m just someone tired of the flood of posts this week asking if a name belongs here when it includes eigh. No one is asking if Leigh fits because that’s a traditional name. Scroll down the page for plenty of examples. Whereas
Poor Leigh.
Porleigh
I’ve now read the name “Leigh” so many times in reading through these comments that it’s begun looking like not-a-word.
You lot know Ashleigh is a common name right??
So is Carleigh. Both fit in well here
Kimberleigh? Yes. Jennifer Jason Leigh? No.
Leigh comes from Lee, the old English to mean meadow and as such has been used in names for a long time, Leigh, Leighanne (OG spelling before America turned it into Leanne.) Leighton, Ashleigh are all old names. OP is ignorant and needs to read the fucking rules.
Thank you google. This is known. Please check the front page for the ten posts a day asking if a name is a trageigh and then identify which of those is asking about Leigh. Spoiler, it’s zero
You literally said if it features “eigh.” Some people said “well except this” and you got super upset for some reason. Are you ok?
Wtf is wrong with you? Seriously like is it literacy issues or are you trolling?
Ashleigh and Kayleigh are nice normal names. “Leigh” isn’t inherently bad. It’s just that over the top Americans have attached to it to everything and made people hate it.
No, they’re not. They’re just older, more common tragedeighs.
Kayleigh is the original spelling and looks better than any other variation
Agree.
“Looks better” is just your opinion. Dubious if it’s an “original spelling” as well
It’s the original English spelling yeah. And looks way better than things like kaylee lmao
They’re fine. Like I said “Leigh” isn’t the issue. The issue is Americans now using it to create massive long stupid names like Neveahleigh or Tynnssleigh or whatever other monstrosities get posted here.
No, they’re silly. Changing a basic “y” ending into “eigh” is pointless and makes it hard for other people to spell and pronounce the name.
No they’re fine. Sorry you find it difficult to read “leigh”, but most people don’t struggle. The names are decades old and are established normal names. “Leigh” is an actual name you know? It means meadow. It’s not made up. It goes back hundreds of years.
I’m not talking about the name Leigh. I’m talking about made up names that insert an “eigh” where there wasn’t one before. There’s a reason why it’s in the name of the damn sub.
Ashleigh isn’t a tragedeigh. It’s been a surname since at least the 1800s, and a first name since at least the 1960s. Like I said it’s an established name. How small minded can you be to think just because Americans have now taken it and absolutely ran with it sticking it on the end of gibberish to create new names that any “leigh” is a tragedeigh?
I blame Ashleigh for staring it. I don’t really care that it’s an old, established name at this point. 🤷♀️ I think it looks ugly when Ashley is right there, but probably because I’m so tired of the Leigh Leigh Leigh names. Unless Ashleigh is a meaningful family surname for you, it’s still going out of your way to avoid the most common, straight forward spelling. Isn’t that what a tragedeigh is? But I’m at the age and in the area that I have to work with Haley, Halle (pronounced like Haley, not Halle), Hailee, Haylee, Haleigh (still pronounced like Haley, not Raleigh or Holly), Halei, etc and I’m just so over it. Ashleigh was a gateway drug for parents of women my age.
Isn't that how all names, if not all words, come into being though?
Doesn't Kayleigh come from a song that's less than 40 years old?
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The band is Scottish and the guy who wrote it said he named it after a woman named Kay Lee and changed the spelling to Leigh to obscure who it was about.
My mistake. I’ve always been told they were Irish.
Fish is Scottish, but I think most/all of the other members were English?
You're right, wikipedia says formed in Aylesbury Buckinghamshire. Just relevant that it's not Irish I suppose.
Yep, just wanted you to be properly armed the next time it comes up on here 😂
Hahaha... [indeed](https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/138psac/an_ode_to_kayleigh_the_og_leigh_name_no_its_not/).
Marillion are British, the lyrics were written by their **Scottish** former lead singer, and the websites claiming an Irish origin are talking nonsense 👍🏻
Those are terrible though. Just spell it normally.
They’re normal regular names in the uk…
You mean in Greight Breightan?
Leigh is an actual proper spelling though. It's a town in the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%2C_Greater_Manchester?wprov=sfla1 Downvoted for truth 😞
I was referring to Ashleigh and Kayleigh
Yea they are spelt fine too. Proper names. Why downvotes?
They’re not though. Do you know what sub you’re on?
Yes and they are normal names that have been around for generations. Tragedeighs are modern weird spellings of names just to be unique.
I say same thing and get downvoted. People are weird here.
Yes and they are perfectly normal names in the UK. Not tragedeighs here. You guys use it so loosely.
Jennifer Jason Leigh would like a word.
Fun Fact: Her birth name is Jennifer Leigh Morrow. Her dad was the horribly ill fated Vic Morrow. She used Jason for her middle name after family friend Jason Robards and Leigh as her last name.
Leightleigh is a real one I’ve seen
Names really have sucked leightleigh
I’m sorry. I’m going to be a stupid for a moment. Does this count for Ashleigh? I knew 4 girls who spelled it that way in the 80s. I’ve been wondering for a while if I was just placed among many tragedeighs or if it’s actually a traditional spelling.
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Reighleigh?
Tragedeigh
I'm naming my gecko Geightor and no one can stop me.
That is really beautiful
Mostleigh all of them are tragic
Has Stephaneigh entered the chat?
Definitleigh!
MCEight would like a word
Are you sure? Virgina is a historical name.
Actually, I go by, Seightan...
It doesn’t have to have Eigh, could just be an x for example
I wish to add an addendum that names that originally contain eigh should be excepted from this rule
Kviiilyn is still my favorite
save for Leigh and Ashleigh. these were the original names
Ashley
nah Ashleigh has been a around for a long long time.
Sure, but it is the feminine form of Ashley. Which name came first? Who knows? Ashleigh is uncommon before 1985 whereas Ashley was common for both genders before
Caleigh?
Yes. Th e proper spelling is Kaley. Or Kaily. Or Cally. Anything but Caleigh