Lethia
Lethia was last recorded in 2004, when 6 babies were given it; 987 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lethia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lethia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,253, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1917, the peak
Lethia peaked in 1917, when 24 girls were given it, #1,577 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #15,253 | 3.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,261 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,671 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,108 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,980 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,850 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,386 | 6.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,790 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,732 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,706 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 10 | #4,646 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,761 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,694 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,651 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,811 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,261 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,688 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,700 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,625 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,724 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,838 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,820 | 5.4 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,680 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,843 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,850 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,986 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,028 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,302 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,292 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,064 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,043 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,814 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,274 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,258 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,965 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,360 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,763 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,098 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,829 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,067 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,647 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,264 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,582 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,242 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,997 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,189 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,988 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,618 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,845 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,059 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,211 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,417 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,335 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,372 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,922 | 17.4 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,230 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,165 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,481 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,958 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,730 | 19.9 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,577 | 22.2 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,913 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,005 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,323 | 30.2 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,638 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,786 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,726 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,299 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,424 | 28.8 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,311 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,234 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,096 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,094 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,143 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,106 | 42.0 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,526 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,576 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,139 | 40.0 |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,009 | 47.2 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,322 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,330 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,363 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,169 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,425 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 11 | #936 | 51.7 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,561 | 23.5 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,156 | 36.8 |
| 1886 | 7 | #950 | 48.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lethia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lethia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lethia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lethia, and how old are they?
An estimated 335 Americans named Lethia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 58 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 379 people named Lethia (376 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,787 babies since 1880, Lethia is the third most given (3.6% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lethia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lethia and names like it
- Compare Lethia and LethaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLethia peaked in 1917.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lethia since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Lethia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lethia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.