Letia
Letia was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 379 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Letia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Letia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,478, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1987, the peak
Letia peaked in 1987, when 21 girls were given it, #4,063 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #16,478 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,043 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,269 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,322 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,383 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,457 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,957 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,299 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,693 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,773 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 12 | #6,494 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,063 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,332 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,071 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,395 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,886 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,627 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,118 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,411 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,468 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,070 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,133 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,728 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,260 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,321 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,664 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,569 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,359 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,148 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,256 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,240 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,110 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,934 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,620 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Letia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Letia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Letia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Letia, and how old are they?
An estimated 362 Americans named Letia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 35 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 407 people named Letia (403 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 51,392 babies since 1880, Letia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 533 babies recorded by SSA was a Letia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Letia
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 Letia and names like it
- Compare Letia and LetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLetia peaked in 1987.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Letia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Letia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.