Letitia
Letitia reached its high-water mark in 1964 at number 545, and has been recorded 11,408 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 8,000 Letitias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Letitia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,408
- Estimated living today
- 8,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 545th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Letitias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,408 babies given the name since 1880, about 8,000 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 40 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Name of an obscure saint, Leticia, from "gladness".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Letitias
- Letitia Wright (born 1993)Guyanese actress
- Letitia Christian Tyler (1790–1842)First Lady of the United States
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)British poet and novelist
- Letitia Vriesde (born 1964)athletics competitor
- Letitia James (born 1958)Attorney General of New York since 2019
- Letitia de Jong (born 1993)Dutch speed skater
People named Letitia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Letitia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Letitia is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.3×), Pennsylvania (2.1×), Virginia (1.8×), North Carolina (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Letitia peaked:
Letitia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Letitia +1 spelling | 765 | 603rd |
| England and Wales girls | Letitia | 400 | 562nd |
| Ireland girls | Letitia | 50 | 354th |
| Scotland girls | Letitia | 25 | 546th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Letitia | 11 | 284th |
| Belgium girls | Letitia | 5 | 1,101st |
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.
Letitia: rank by region
In 1995, Letitia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Letitia | 685 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Related names
Letitia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.