Letha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Letha

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,137 babies named Letha between 1880 and 2020, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Letha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 473 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Letha performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 3,767 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Letha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,482 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Letha in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Letha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,137 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.