Meaning not yet researched.
Leticia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 120 in 2025. Its best rank was #232 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #232 in 1976; #1,707 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leticia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,707 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #232.
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Leticia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 120 girls in 2025. Peak: #232 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 1,070 (1980).
In 2025, 120 US girls were named Leticia, making it the 1,707th most common girls’ name of the year, up 56 places from #1,763 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 115 girls named Leticia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #232, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,070, in 1980. For comparison, it was #1,473 in 2015 and #837 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leticia in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 43,199 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 10,231 babies named Leticia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,261 US girls were named Leticia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,394 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leticia ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #939 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Letitia (11,408 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Letisia, Letticia and Letecia 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: Letisia (934), Letticia (581), Letecia (525), Letizia (502), Laetitia (375), Liticia (121), Lettice (18), Letycia (11).
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 Leticia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #939 | #923 |
| California | 25 | #1,072 | #917 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,581 | #1,168 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 120 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 2016 | 151 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2015 | 156 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 2014 | 160 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 2012 | 169 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 2011 | 170 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 2010 | 232 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2009 | 238 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 2008 | 271 | #987 | — | — |
| 2007 | 269 | #993 | — | — |
| 2006 | 342 | #800 | — | — |
| 2005 | 332 | #784 | — | — |
| 2004 | 353 | #744 | — | — |
| 2003 | 378 | #690 | — | — |
| 2002 | 391 | #646 | — | — |
| 2001 | 461 | #561 | — | — |
| 2000 | 468 | #558 | — | — |
| 1999 | 477 | #532 | — | — |
| 1998 | 541 | #474 | — | — |
| 1997 | 543 | #462 | — | — |
| 1996 | 547 | #458 | — | — |
| 1995 | 587 | #438 | — | — |
| 1994 | 649 | #389 | — | — |
| 1993 | 671 | #380 | 6 | #8,261 |
| 1992 | 850 | #321 | 9 | #5,937 |
| 1991 | 651 | #393 | — | — |
| 1990 | 782 | #340 | 11 | #4,874 |
| 1989 | 663 | #380 | 6 | #7,527 |
| 1988 | 682 | #359 | 10 | #4,634 |
| 1987 | 693 | #348 | — | — |
| 1986 | 673 | #353 | 11 | #4,023 |
| 1985 | 783 | #309 | 9 | #4,547 |
| 1984 | 753 | #315 | 9 | #4,416 |
| 1983 | 842 | #279 | 8 | #4,740 |
| 1982 | 966 | #257 | 9 | #4,442 |
| 1981 | 1,036 | #241 | 7 | #5,258 |
| 1980 | 1,070 | #241 | 9 | #4,360 |
| 1979 | 1,018 | #246 | 12 | #3,475 |
| 1978 | 1,021 | #240 | 5 | #6,382 |
| 1977 | 1,020 | #242 | 7 | #4,916 |
| 1976 | 1,037 | #232 | 5 | #6,122 |
| 1975 | 977 | #249 | 5 | #5,962 |
| 1974 | 1,019 | #252 | 12 | #3,059 |
| 1973 | 987 | #255 | 8 | #3,920 |
| 1972 | 1,052 | #256 | 15 | #2,493 |
| 1971 | 1,052 | #274 | — | — |
| 1970 | 973 | #297 | 6 | #4,529 |
| 1969 | 991 | #283 | 7 | #3,796 |
| 1968 | 851 | #304 | 5 | #4,493 |
| 1967 | 764 | #313 | — | — |
| 1966 | 841 | #305 | 7 | #3,416 |
| 1965 | 786 | #321 | — | — |
| 1964 | 843 | #324 | — | — |
| 1963 | 803 | #333 | — | — |
| 1962 | 791 | #334 | — | — |
| 1961 | 870 | #318 | 7 | #3,539 |
| 1960 | 772 | #343 | 10 | #2,789 |
| 1959 | 602 | #386 | — | — |
| 1958 | 554 | #389 | — | — |
| 1957 | 543 | #391 | — | — |
| 1956 | 478 | #416 | — | — |
| 1955 | 402 | #448 | — | — |
| 1954 | 326 | #489 | — | — |
| 1953 | 307 | #498 | — | — |
| 1952 | 234 | #567 | — | — |
| 1951 | 148 | #720 | — | — |
| 1950 | 110 | #837 | — | — |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1948 | 57 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,094 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,242 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,247 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,552 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,818 | — | — |
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).