Given name
Letícia
“great joy; pleasure”
Letícia is a feminine given name from Latin, meaning “great joy; pleasure.” It is used in Portuguese and Hungarian.
Original LatinLaetitia
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Hungarian usage, Letícia developed from Laetitia.
Letícia’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Letícia developed from the Latin form Laetitia. In Portuguese usage, Letícia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Letitia. In Portuguese usage, Letícia shares an earlier linguistic root with Lediça.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Letícia
- Letícia SabatellaBrazilian actress and singerborn 1972
- Letícia RománItalian actress1941–2025
- Letícia BirkheuerBrazilian actressborn 1978
- Letícia BufoniBrazilian-American skateboarderborn 1993
- Letícia SantosBrazilian association football playerborn 1994
- Letícia IzidoroBrazilian association football playerborn 1994
- Letícia ColinBrazilian actress and singerborn 1989
- Letícia de SouzaBrazilian athletics competitorborn 1996
- LetruxBrazilian composer, singer and actressborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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>99% girls
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