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Leticia

Leticia reached its high-water mark in 1980 at number 240, and has been recorded 43,199 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,703rd. About 40,000 Leticias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Leticia boys named Leticia

By the numbers

Total US births
43,199
Estimated living today
40,000
Median age today
46
Peak year
1980
Best rank
240th
Rank in 2025
1,703rd
First recorded
1916
Girls / boys
42,984 / 215

How old the living Leticias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 43,199 babies given the name since 1916, about 40,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 3,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Leticias

People named Leticia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Leticia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Leticia is most concentrated in Texas (4.2×), California (3.7×), Arizona (3.3×), New Mexico (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1980

The most popular girls’ names the year Leticia peaked:

All the names of 1980

Leticia elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Leticia +1 spelling 1,525 1,018th
Switzerland girls Leticia +2 spellings 779 186th
England and Wales girls Leticia 511 972nd
Belgium girls Leticia 123 743rd
Poland girls Leticia +1 spelling 83 birth registrations 356th
Ireland girls Leticia 3 842nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Leticia: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Leticia 271 0.022% 265th
German girls Switzerland Letícia 58 0.005% 604th
German girls Switzerland Léticia 9 0.001% 840th
French girls Switzerland Leticia 333 0.077% 82nd
French girls Switzerland Letícia 60 0.014% 237th
French girls Switzerland Léticia 33 0.008% 339th
Italian girls Switzerland Leticia 12 0.018% 113th
Romansh girls Switzerland Leticia 2 0.054% 9th
Romansh girls Switzerland Letícia 1 0.027% 9th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Leticia is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.12% of children were given it – 82 of them.

Leticia: rank by region

In 2017, Leticia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Leticia 845 5

In 2025, Leticia was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Leticia 167 2
Śląskie Leticia 255 2

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Leticia by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 10 390th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Leticia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Leticia 24 43

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Leticia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 22,171 women called Leticia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Zamora Leticia 177 2.118 102
Burgos Leticia 371 2.048 104
Palencia Leticia 154 1.927 109
Valladolid Leticia 521 1.921 116
Ávila Leticia 150 1.876 113
Guadalajara Leticia 253 1.800 114

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Leticia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.