Leticia
Leticia was given to 120 girls in 2025, #1,707 among girls’ names; 43,199 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 40,000 Americans named Leticia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 34 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leticia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leticia mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Leticia is “a female given name, equivalent to English Letitia” Its etymology gives the sense “gladness” (laetitia).
Name of an early Spanish saint, from Latin laetitia (“gladness”).
/leˈtiθja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leticia?
#1,707 among girls’ names, 2025
Leticia fell from #1,473 in 2015 to #1,707 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 87.4 to 74.7 per million.
1,079 babies in 1980, the peak
Leticia peaked in 1980, when 1,079 babies were given it (1,070 girls, #241 among girls’ names). The 120 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 120 | #1,707 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,763 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,677 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,702 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,704 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,684 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,741 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,629 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,621 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 151 | #1,508 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 156 | #1,473 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 160 | #1,424 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,460 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 169 | #1,381 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 170 | #1,359 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 232 | #1,072 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 238 | #1,074 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 271 | #987 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 269 | #993 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 342 | #800 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 332 | #784 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 353 | #744 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 378 | #690 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 391 | #646 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 461 | #561 | 0.26 |
| 2000 | 468 | #558 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 477 | #532 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 541 | #474 | 0.31 |
| 1997 | 543 | #462 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 547 | #458 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 587 | #438 | 0.33 |
| 1994 | 649 | #389 | 0.36 |
| 1993 | 671 | #380 | 0.37 |
| 1992 | 850 | #321 | 0.46 |
| 1991 | 651 | #393 | 0.35 |
| 1990 | 782 | #340 | 0.41 |
| 1989 | 663 | #380 | 0.36 |
| 1988 | 682 | #359 | 0.38 |
| 1987 | 693 | #348 | 0.40 |
| 1986 | 673 | #353 | 0.39 |
| 1985 | 783 | #309 | 0.46 |
| 1984 | 753 | #315 | 0.45 |
| 1983 | 842 | #279 | 0.50 |
| 1982 | 966 | #257 | 0.57 |
| 1981 | 1,036 | #241 | 0.62 |
| 1980 | 1,070 | #241 | 0.64 |
| 1979 | 1,018 | #246 | 0.63 |
| 1978 | 1,021 | #240 | 0.67 |
| 1977 | 1,020 | #242 | 0.67 |
| 1976 | 1,037 | #232 | 0.71 |
| 1975 | 977 | #249 | 0.67 |
| 1974 | 1,019 | #252 | 0.69 |
| 1973 | 987 | #255 | 0.68 |
| 1972 | 1,052 | #256 | 0.69 |
| 1971 | 1,052 | #274 | 0.63 |
| 1970 | 973 | #297 | 0.56 |
| 1969 | 991 | #283 | 0.59 |
| 1968 | 851 | #304 | 0.52 |
| 1967 | 764 | #313 | 0.46 |
| 1966 | 841 | #305 | 0.50 |
| 1965 | 786 | #321 | 0.45 |
| 1964 | 843 | #324 | 0.44 |
| 1963 | 803 | #333 | 0.42 |
| 1962 | 791 | #334 | 0.40 |
| 1961 | 870 | #318 | 0.43 |
| 1960 | 772 | #343 | 0.38 |
| 1959 | 602 | #386 | 0.30 |
| 1958 | 554 | #389 | 0.28 |
| 1957 | 543 | #391 | 0.27 |
| 1956 | 478 | #415 | 0.24 |
| 1955 | 402 | #447 | 0.21 |
| 1954 | 326 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1953 | 307 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1952 | 234 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1951 | 148 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 110 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 57 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,403 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,366 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,559 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,639 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,041 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,455 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,084 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,837 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,050 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,099 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,841 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,960 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,479 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,744 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,498 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,964 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,995 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,092 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,241 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,245 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,482 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,550 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,541 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,816 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leticia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leticia has been given almost only to girls: 215 boys in 105 years of records.
Girls and boys named Leticia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leticia, and how old are they?
40,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 43,199 Americans ever recorded as Leticia. The median Leticia alive today is 47 years old; half are between 34 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 83,202 people named Leticia (83,074 women and girls, 128 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40,236 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 104 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,610 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,720 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Leticia born?
The states with the most babies named Leticia are California, Texas and Illinois, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14,625 | #1,072 | 3.0× |
| Texas | 12,753 | #1,581 | 3.9× |
| Illinois | 2,312 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 1,851 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 1,587 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Florida | 1,063 | #939 | 0.7× |
| New Mexico | 583 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Washington | 466 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 416 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 415 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Leticia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leticia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1916 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Leticia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 44,498 babies since 1880, Leticia is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 120 of their 120 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Leticia
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 Leticia and names like it
- Compare Leticia and LetticiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLeticia peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leticia since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Leticia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Leticia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Leticia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.