Hartleigh
A feminine name of English origin meaning "stag meadow" or "hart's meadow".
Name Census estimates that about 170 living Americans carry the first name Hartleigh. The name is used almost exclusively for girls. The average person named Hartleigh today is around 8 years old, and the year with the single highest number of Hartleigh births was 2018 (16 babies).
This page is the full Name Census profile for Hartleigh. Below you will find a gender breakdown showing how the name splits between male and female registrations, a year-by-year popularity chart stretching back to 1880, decade-level totals, the top US states for this name, its meaning and etymology, and a set of frequently asked questions with data-backed answers.
People living today
170
~ 1 in 2,016,202 Americans
Peak year
2018
16 babies that year
Average age
8
years old
2024 SSA rank
#8,095
Tracked since 2010
Popularity
Hartleigh: popularity over time
The SSA tracks Hartleigh from the 2010s through to the 2020s, spanning 2 decades of birth certificate data. The biggest single decade for the name was the 2010s, with 105 total registrations. Although the numbers have come down from the 2010s peak, Hartleigh remains solidly in use and shows no sign of disappearing from maternity wards.
Babies born per year
Decades
Hartleigh by decade
The table below breaks the full SSA timeline into ten-year windows. Each row shows how many male and female babies were given the name Hartleigh during that decade, along with a combined total. This is useful for spotting eras where the name surged or retreated.
Origin
Meaning and history of Hartleigh
The name Hartleigh is an English name that originated in the 16th century. It is a combination of two Old English words: "heorot" meaning "hart" or "deer," and "leah" meaning "meadow" or "clearing." Thus, the name Hartleigh can be interpreted to mean "the deer's meadow" or "the clearing where deer roam."
This name was particularly popular in the English counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, where many families resided in areas surrounded by forests and meadows, making the name an apt description of their surroundings. In the early 17th century, the name Hartleigh can be found in parish records from these regions.
One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Hartleigh dates back to 1612, when a boy named Hartleigh Woodhouse was born in the village of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. In 1643, a Hartleigh Wilkinson was listed as a landowner in the village of Baslow, also in Derbyshire.
The name gained further recognition in the late 18th century when Hartleigh Browne (1744-1812), an English poet and playwright, rose to prominence. His most notable work was the play "The Deserted Village," which was performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1795.
Another notable bearer of the name was Hartleigh Coleridge (1796-1849), the son of the famous English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Hartleigh Coleridge was himself a writer and poet, though he never achieved the same level of fame as his father.
In the 19th century, Hartleigh Wilkinson (1829-1907) was a renowned English architect who designed several notable buildings in London, including the Savoy Theatre and the Criterion Theatre.
The name Hartleigh also made its way across the Atlantic, with Hartleigh Perkins (1844-1922), an American businessman and philanthropist, founding the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, one of the oldest schools for the blind in the United States.
While the name Hartleigh is not as common today as it once was, it remains a unique and distinctive name with a rich historical background, rooted in the English countryside and the language of the Anglo-Saxons.
People
Hartleigh + last name combinations
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Related
Other names starting with H
Other first names starting with H with a similar number of bearers.
FAQ
Hartleigh: questions and answers
How many people in the U.S. are named Hartleigh?
Name Census puts the figure at roughly 170 living Americans. We arrive at this by taking every SSA birth registration for Hartleigh going back to 1880 and adjusting each cohort for expected survival using CDC actuarial life tables. The result is an age-weighted living-bearer count, not a raw birth total. That works out to about 1 in 2,016,202 US residents.
Is Hartleigh a common name?
We classify Hartleigh as "Very Rare". It ranks above 72% of all first names in the SSA dataset by living bearers. Across the full history of the data, 171 babies have been registered with this name.
When was Hartleigh most popular?
The single biggest year for Hartleigh was 2018, when 16 babies received the name. The fact that the average living Hartleigh is about 8 years old gives you a rough sense of which era contributed the most bearers who are still alive today.
Is Hartleigh a female name?
Yes, 100.0% of people registered as Hartleigh in the SSA data are female. You can see the full per-sex comparison in the gender distribution section above, which includes the latest year rank, birth count, and peak year for each sex.
Where does this data come from?
First-name figures come from the Social Security Administration's national baby name files, which cover every name on a birth certificate from 1880 to 2024. Living-bearer estimates layer in CDC actuarial life tables broken out by sex to account for mortality. The population baseline (342,754,338) is the Census Bureau's latest national estimate. You can read the full calculation on our methodology page.