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Letisia vs Letitia

American parents have registered 11,408 Letitias since 1880, against 934 Letisias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Letisia against Letitia, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Letisia Letitia

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 137 years in which either name was published, Letitia for 129 years and Letisia for 8 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Letisia Letitia
Total US births 93411,408
Most in one year 41329
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8908,000
Median age today 4456
Peak year 19791964
Best rank 2,304th girls545th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19541880
Girls / boys 934 / 011,408 / 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 Letitias alive today are over 56; half the Letisias are over 44. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Letisia Letitia
France 15765
England and Wales 6400

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: Letisia and Letitia.