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Letitia vs Letricia

American parents have registered 11,408 Letitias since 1880, against 505 Letricias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Letitia Letricia

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

Letitia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Letitia had 64 and Letricia had 8.

Side by side

  Letitia Letricia
Total US births 11,408505
Most in one year 32921
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8,000450
Median age today 5653
Peak year 19641965
Best rank 545th girls2,684th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801939
Girls / boys 11,408 / 0505 / 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 Letricias are over 53. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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