"Form of Leighton"
The name Leightyn is commonly a female name from the "English" origin.
Leightyn is a respelling of Leighton, an English surname that comes from one of several English place names. The final syllable is written -tyn in place of the usual -ton, a substitution that appears in a number of recent American spellings of surname names. The spelling changes but the pronunciation and the underlying name do not.
Leighton means "From the meadow town.".
The pronunciation of Leightyn is LAY-tin.
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