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Leticia vs Letizia

American parents have registered 43,199 Leticias since 1880, against 502 Letizias. Leticia is still ahead, with 120 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leticia against Letizia, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leticia Letizia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 108 years in which either name was published, Leticia for 102 years and Letizia for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Leticia Letizia
Total US births 43,199502
Most in one year 1,07921
Babies in 2025 1207
Estimated living today 40,000440
Median age today 4619
Peak year 19802004
Best rank 240th girls5,744th girls
Rank in 2025 1,703rd11,932nd
First recorded 19161914
Girls / boys 42,984 / 215502 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Leticias alive today are over 46; half the Letizias are over 19. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Leticia Letizia
France 1,525600
Switzerland 779504
England and Wales 51135
Belgium 123111
Poland 8338

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leticia and Letizia.