Letta
Letta was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,624 among girls’ names; 782 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Letta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Letta?
#12,624 among girls’ names, 2025
Letta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,624 in 2025.
24 babies in 1971, the peak
Letta peaked in 1971, when 24 girls were given it, #2,912 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,624 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,893 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,421 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,673 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,400 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,341 | 2.9 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,697 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,343 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,256 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,749 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 10 | #5,388 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,004 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,912 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,153 | 8.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,646 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,153 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,088 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,426 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,639 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,609 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,987 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,842 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,798 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,775 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,471 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,583 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,141 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,099 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,730 | 3.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,570 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,485 | 5.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,544 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,306 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,946 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,462 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,947 | 5.2 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,696 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,034 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,326 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,144 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,991 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,583 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,050 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,480 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,848 | 17.8 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,114 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,160 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,551 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,615 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,787 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,643 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,443 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,265 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,029 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,750 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,056 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,672 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,341 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,923 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,489 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,745 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,812 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,861 | 18.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,213 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,859 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,988 | 17.9 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,943 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,388 | 30.3 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,577 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,840 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,509 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,323 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,218 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 15 | #860 | 63.0 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,370 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,032 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,361 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 10 | #989 | 47.1 |
| 1891 | 9 | #975 | 48.5 |
| 1890 | 10 | #906 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,392 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,217 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 9 | #826 | 61.7 |
| 1886 | 11 | #715 | 76.1 |
| 1885 | 9 | #779 | 67.6 |
| 1884 | 8 | #822 | 62.0 |
| 1883 | 8 | #730 | 71.2 |
| 1882 | 7 | #777 | 64.9 |
| 1881 | 7 | #717 | 76.1 |
| 1880 | 9 | #612 | 98.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Letta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Letta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Letta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Letta, and how old are they?
An estimated 260 Americans named Letta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 50 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 323 people named Letta (320 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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).
How common is the spelling Letta?
Letta is a less common spelling of Leta: SSA has recorded 782 Letta and 11,944 Leta since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,612 babies since 1880, Letta is the sixth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 569 babies (1.2%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Letta
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 Letta and names like it
- Compare Letta and LetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLetta peaked in 1971.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Letta since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Letta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Letta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.