Lea vs Leigh

Lea

name
  • A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8286). 

  • An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee. 

  • A village in Lea and Cleverton parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9586). 

  • A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah. 

  • A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257). 

  • A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar. 

Leigh

name
  • A small village and civil parish (served by Leigh and Bransford Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7853). 

  • The Leigh, a hamlet and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8626). 

  • A village in Wiltshire, England. 

  • A village in Surrey, England. 

  • A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5446). Former spelling: Lyghe. 

  • A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England, which includes Church Leigh, Lower Leigh and Upper Leigh. 

  • A female given name, female equivalent of Lee 

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. 

  • A surname from Middle English, variant of Lee. 

  • A village in Dorset, England. 

How often have the words Lea and Leigh occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )