Given name
Letitia
“one who brings joy to others”
Letitia is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “one who brings joy to others.”
Original LatinLaetitia
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “one who brings joy to others.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Letitia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11,408
- 0 boys · 11,408 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 329 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 329 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,875 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Letitia’s family of names
In English usage, Letitia has a short form in Tia. In English usage, Letitia has a conventional equivalent in the Galician form Leticia. Letitia has a related form in Leticia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Letitia has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Letitia comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 26
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Lettiediminutive · English
- Lettydiminutive · English
- Leticiavariant · Spanish, Galician
- Tiashort form · English
- Tishadiminutive · English
- Lettavariant
- Letiziavariant · Italian
- Latishavariant · English
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- Letticevariant · English
- Tishdiminutive · English
- Laetitiavariant · German, French
- Latitiavariant · English
- Laticiavariant
- Lateshavariant
- Lateishavariant
- Letishavariant
- Latiavariant
- Latashiavariant
- Letittialikely variant
- Tittydiminutive · English
- Letycjavariant
- Lettitiavariant
- Leticjavariant
- Leticevariant
- Laetiziavariant
- Lætitiavariant · English
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.
People named Letitia
- Letitia WrightGuyanese actress (born 1993)
- Letitia Christian TylerFirst Lady of the United States (1790-1842)
- Letitia Elizabeth LandonBritish poet and novelist (1802–1838)
- Letitia VriesdeSurinamese athletics competitor (born 1964)
- Letitia JamesAttorney General of New York since 2019born 1958
- Letitia de JongDutch speed skaterborn 1993
- Letitia ObengGhanaian zoologist (1925–2023)
- Letitia Mumford GeerAmerican nurse and inventor (1853-1935)1852–1935
- Letitia StevensonSecond Lady of the United States (1843-1913)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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