Girls' name · since 1957
Letia
Letia has 379 recorded births since 1957 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1987 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #13,965 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 379
- born since 1957
- 1980s
- peak decade
Letia sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 379 recorded since 1957.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Letia has been recorded 379 times among girls since 1957, though it is not among the currently most-used girls names, with its heaviest use in the 1980s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1957 to 2000.
- #13,965 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 379 born since 1957
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Letia ranks #13,965 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 379 born since 1957, peaking in the 1980s.
- #13,965 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 379
- born since 1957
- 1980s
- peak decade
Letia's 379 recorded births place it above 80.68% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Letia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Letia's full recorded timeline at 1982, 62% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 38% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1957, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1987 peak of 21 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Letia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1957–2000
- Peak year (1987)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 44 years of records
Letia by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (155 births, 41% of the file).
1980s was Letia's strongest decade.
155 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 41% of all-time use.
Letia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 11
1950s
11 births
- 1960s 27
1960s
27 births
- 1970s
1970s
79 births
- 1980s
1980s
155 births
- 1990s
1990s
102 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 155 births (41% of all-time use).
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- Letia's decade-level peak was the 1980s (155 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Letia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1987)
Similar record span (~43 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1957–2000 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Letia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.