Letisha
Letisha was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,894 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Letisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 40 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Letisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Letisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,576, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
124 babies in 1979, the peak
Letisha peaked in 1979, when 124 girls were given it, #1,101 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,576 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,598 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,668 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,250 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,392 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,653 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,687 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,369 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,237 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,582 | 9.7 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 25 | #4,188 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,381 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,239 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,061 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,382 | 27.4 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,106 | 32.0 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,879 | 37.1 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,034 | 31.6 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,826 | 36.1 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,582 | 44.2 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,672 | 39.2 |
| 1983 | 90 | #1,337 | 53.9 |
| 1982 | 95 | #1,323 | 56.1 |
| 1981 | 103 | #1,258 | 61.7 |
| 1980 | 121 | #1,128 | 72.9 |
| 1979 | 124 | #1,101 | 77.2 |
| 1978 | 109 | #1,165 | 71.2 |
| 1977 | 80 | #1,410 | 52.2 |
| 1976 | 72 | #1,455 | 49.1 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,550 | 44.6 |
| 1974 | 73 | #1,407 | 49.7 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,721 | 35.7 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,077 | 25.0 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,675 | 33.1 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,065 | 22.9 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,233 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,530 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,762 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,345 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,346 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,315 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,636 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,585 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,795 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Letisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Letisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Letisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Letisha, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,894 Americans ever recorded as Letisha. The median Letisha alive today is 45 years old; half are between 40 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,590 people named Letisha (1,585 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 31 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 861 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 858 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 51 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Letisha born?
The states with the most babies named Letisha are New York, California and Texas, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 139 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 129 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 43 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 39 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Mexico | 22 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Letisha 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 2,440 babies since 1880, Letisha is the most given (78% 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 Letisha
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 Letisha and names like it
- Compare Letisha and LetashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLetisha peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Letisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Letisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Letisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.