Just wondering about my surname
Hi, I'm Royalle (it's a girl's name, has anyone heard of it before?) and I was just checking my surname Leigh on the database. Well, there wasn't anything about it so I checked the surname Lee (is it connected with Leigh? I always thought it was). It seems that it is an English/CHinese surname. Interesting huh. anyway, does anyone think that Lee is connected to Leigh or if it isn't, does anyone know what Leigh means?
Thanks,
Royalle Leigh
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I've seen 'Leigh' as a first name, so I checked www.behindthename.com (the database of first names). According to that, the surname came before the first name, and means 'meadow' in either Old English ("leah") or Middle English ("legh"). The name "Lee" came from the same root, so they're just different spellings of the same thing.
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ps: and I didn't know there was a site call behindthename.com! I'm going to it to find how my name too:).:)
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Thanks alot FDK!
Royalle Leigh
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