Meaning not yet researched.
Leta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #319 in 1889.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #319 in 1889; #9,827 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,827 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1889, at #319.
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Leta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #319 in 1889 · most girls in one year: 233 (1918).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Leta, making it the 9,827th most common girls’ name of the year, down 527 places from #9,300 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 11 girls named Leta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #319, reached in 1889. The most girls given the name in a single year was 233, in 1918. For comparison, it was #11,465 in 2015 and #736 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leta in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 18 babies. In all, 11,944 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,072 babies named Leta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 135 US girls were named Leta; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lita (4,437 babies since 1880), Letha (19,162 babies since 1880), Leota (10,447 babies since 1880) and Leatha (6,023 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leda are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leda (3,448).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leta in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,827 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,300 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,309 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,798 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,998 | — | — |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,833 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,972 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,407 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,106 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,823 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,465 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,907 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,665 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,941 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,186 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,382 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,487 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,911 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,316 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,348 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,116 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,250 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,274 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,565 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,330 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,696 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,926 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,549 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,943 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,836 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,587 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,462 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,463 | — | — |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,288 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,321 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,248 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,647 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,759 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1965 | 65 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1964 | 87 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1963 | 90 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1962 | 100 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1961 | 129 | #952 | — | — |
| 1960 | 136 | #906 | — | — |
| 1959 | 112 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1958 | 119 | #949 | — | — |
| 1957 | 136 | #874 | — | — |
| 1956 | 136 | #856 | — | — |
| 1955 | 142 | #812 | — | — |
| 1954 | 183 | #692 | — | — |
| 1953 | 170 | #703 | — | — |
| 1952 | 162 | #702 | — | — |
| 1951 | 142 | #735 | — | — |
| 1950 | 137 | #736 | — | — |
| 1949 | 170 | #637 | — | — |
| 1948 | 132 | #736 | — | — |
| 1947 | 153 | #681 | — | — |
| 1946 | 120 | #744 | — | — |
| 1945 | 104 | #733 | — | — |
| 1944 | 135 | #630 | — | — |
| 1943 | 133 | #659 | — | — |
| 1942 | 112 | #706 | — | — |
| 1941 | 139 | #600 | — | — |
| 1940 | 134 | #604 | — | — |
| 1939 | 142 | #567 | — | — |
| 1938 | 146 | #566 | — | — |
| 1937 | 125 | #603 | — | — |
| 1936 | 154 | #522 | — | — |
| 1935 | 150 | #527 | — | — |
| 1934 | 169 | #495 | — | — |
| 1933 | 167 | #493 | — | — |
| 1932 | 159 | #521 | — | — |
| 1931 | 162 | #512 | — | — |
| 1930 | 213 | #461 | — | — |
| 1929 | 191 | #488 | — | — |
| 1928 | 214 | #469 | — | — |
| 1927 | 229 | #462 | — | — |
| 1926 | 225 | #454 | — | — |
| 1925 | 195 | #505 | — | — |
| 1924 | 183 | #532 | — | — |
| 1923 | 204 | #484 | — | — |
| 1922 | 200 | #487 | — | — |
| 1921 | 206 | #481 | — | — |
| 1920 | 225 | #448 | — | — |
| 1919 | 183 | #497 | — | — |
| 1918 | 233 | #435 | — | — |
| 1917 | 196 | #464 | — | — |
| 1916 | 219 | #424 | — | — |
| 1915 | 224 | #403 | — | — |
| 1914 | 153 | #441 | — | — |
| 1913 | 130 | #434 | — | — |
| 1912 | 130 | #406 | — | — |
| 1911 | 98 | #406 | — | — |
| 1910 | 97 | #401 | — | — |
| 1909 | 96 | #379 | — | — |
| 1908 | 83 | #400 | — | — |
| 1907 | 87 | #380 | — | — |
| 1906 | 81 | #382 | — | — |
| 1905 | 98 | #343 | — | — |
| 1904 | 86 | #353 | — | — |
| 1903 | 83 | #348 | — | — |
| 1902 | 82 | #351 | — | — |
| 1901 | 74 | #354 | — | — |
| 1900 | 93 | #348 | — | — |
| 1899 | 60 | #376 | — | — |
| 1898 | 95 | #322 | — | — |
| 1897 | 78 | #334 | — | — |
| 1896 | 76 | #336 | — | — |
| 1895 | 73 | #335 | — | — |
| 1894 | 65 | #344 | — | — |
| 1893 | 55 | #365 | — | — |
| 1892 | 56 | #355 | — | — |
| 1891 | 45 | #374 | — | — |
| 1890 | 63 | #320 | — | — |
| 1889 | 59 | #319 | — | — |
| 1888 | 41 | #378 | — | — |
| 1887 | 32 | #385 | — | — |
| 1886 | 24 | #444 | — | — |
| 1885 | 32 | #358 | — | — |
| 1884 | 22 | #431 | — | — |
| 1883 | 25 | #369 | — | — |
| 1882 | 15 | #483 | — | — |
| 1881 | 21 | #366 | — | — |
| 1880 | 18 | #397 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).