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This is a combo of Leigh & Leda.

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Leda was my grandma's name... & my mom's middle name is Leigh ... also, connected with Leigh are my sister & my cousin... GREAT women!!!

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The girl's name Leigh \le(i)-gh\, can also used as boy's name Leigh, is a variant of Leah (Hebrew) and Lee (Old English), and the meaning of Leigh is "delicate; weary; meadow or pasture".
Leda \LEE-dah\
Leda and the Swan is a motif from Greek mythology, in which Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. As the story goes, Zeus took the form of a swan and seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband, King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched. The literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius made it a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme in the Italian Renaissance.

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In Greek mythology, Leda was the Queen of Sparta
Leda is one of the moons of Jupiter
William Butler Yeats's poem, "Leda and the Swan"
The ballet, "Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid"