Meaning not yet researched.
Lettie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 358 in 2025. Its best rank was #184 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #184 in 1881; #757 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lettie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#757 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #184.
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Lettie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 358 girls in 2025. Peak: #184 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 358 (2025).
In 2025, 358 US girls were named Lettie, making it the 757th most common girls’ name of the year, up 179 places from #936 in 2024. That is 76 more than the 282 girls named Lettie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #184, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 358, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,927 in 2015 and #1,119 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lettie in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 62 babies. In all, 11,097 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,564 babies named Lettie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,825 US girls were named Lettie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 358. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,490 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lettie ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #225 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Letty (4,615 babies since 1880) and Letti (599 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lethia, Littie and Letia 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: Lethia (987), Littie (623), Letia (379), Leathie (93), Leti (79), Lettye (27), Lethie (18), Lettia (5), Leotie (5).
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 Lettie in the open dataset we use.
Lettie is listed as a nickname for Letitia, Violetta.
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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #225 | — |
| Utah | 17 | #268 | — |
| Minnesota | 20 | #279 | — |
| Iowa | 12 | #292 | — |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #304 | #656 |
| Alabama | 16 | #309 | — |
| Kentucky | 13 | #353 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #365 | #904 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #372 | #899 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #388 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #419 | — |
| Indiana | 16 | #435 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #445 | — |
| North Carolina | 19 | #569 | — |
| Ohio | 18 | #579 | #1,235 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #592 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #621 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #794 | #1,557 |
| Michigan | 9 | #830 | #1,076 |
| Colorado | 6 | #859 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #891 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,188 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,388 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,582 | #2,515 |
| New York | 7 | #1,757 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 358 | #757 | — | — |
| 2024 | 282 | #936 | — | — |
| 2023 | 215 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 2022 | 207 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 2021 | 174 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 2020 | 147 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 2019 | 137 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 2015 | 105 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,343 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,293 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,344 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,141 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,618 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,385 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,468 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,499 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,114 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,025 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,661 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,505 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,101 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,243 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,220 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,922 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,020 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,131 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,353 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,451 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,269 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,978 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,135 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,220 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,390 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,120 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,142 | — | — |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,522 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,153 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,419 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,500 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,725 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,442 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1959 | 58 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1958 | 68 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1955 | 69 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1954 | 66 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1953 | 61 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1952 | 76 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1951 | 57 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1950 | 68 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1948 | 91 | #912 | — | — |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1946 | 67 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1945 | 77 | #860 | — | — |
| 1944 | 75 | #886 | — | — |
| 1943 | 93 | #799 | — | — |
| 1942 | 101 | #758 | — | — |
| 1941 | 82 | #799 | — | — |
| 1940 | 75 | #825 | — | — |
| 1939 | 100 | #678 | — | — |
| 1938 | 89 | #727 | — | — |
| 1937 | 94 | #706 | — | — |
| 1936 | 98 | #668 | — | — |
| 1935 | 106 | #632 | — | — |
| 1934 | 115 | #620 | — | — |
| 1933 | 109 | #627 | — | — |
| 1932 | 115 | #620 | — | — |
| 1931 | 91 | #703 | — | — |
| 1930 | 122 | #628 | — | — |
| 1929 | 123 | #620 | — | — |
| 1928 | 103 | #691 | — | — |
| 1927 | 136 | #613 | — | — |
| 1926 | 154 | #574 | — | — |
| 1925 | 174 | #543 | — | — |
| 1924 | 201 | #493 | — | — |
| 1923 | 187 | #512 | — | — |
| 1922 | 151 | #585 | — | — |
| 1921 | 183 | #524 | — | — |
| 1920 | 152 | #581 | — | — |
| 1919 | 170 | #523 | — | — |
| 1918 | 161 | #559 | — | — |
| 1917 | 164 | #521 | — | — |
| 1916 | 168 | #501 | — | — |
| 1915 | 190 | #446 | — | — |
| 1914 | 133 | #477 | — | — |
| 1913 | 142 | #414 | — | — |
| 1912 | 95 | #491 | — | — |
| 1911 | 95 | #415 | — | — |
| 1910 | 102 | #393 | — | — |
| 1909 | 94 | #383 | — | — |
| 1908 | 116 | #331 | — | — |
| 1907 | 108 | #337 | — | — |
| 1906 | 105 | #330 | — | — |
| 1905 | 98 | #344 | — | — |
| 1904 | 81 | #364 | — | — |
| 1903 | 79 | #357 | — | — |
| 1902 | 108 | #306 | — | — |
| 1901 | 95 | #306 | — | — |
| 1900 | 143 | #272 | — | — |
| 1899 | 89 | #318 | — | — |
| 1898 | 120 | #280 | — | — |
| 1897 | 99 | #285 | — | — |
| 1896 | 98 | #295 | — | — |
| 1895 | 107 | #274 | — | — |
| 1894 | 119 | #248 | — | — |
| 1893 | 99 | #270 | — | — |
| 1892 | 102 | #262 | — | — |
| 1891 | 90 | #257 | — | — |
| 1890 | 96 | #254 | — | — |
| 1889 | 87 | #253 | — | — |
| 1888 | 90 | #246 | — | — |
| 1887 | 98 | #207 | — | — |
| 1886 | 86 | #213 | — | — |
| 1885 | 70 | #239 | — | — |
| 1884 | 72 | #227 | — | — |
| 1883 | 82 | #185 | — | — |
| 1882 | 68 | #201 | — | — |
| 1881 | 68 | #184 | — | — |
| 1880 | 62 | #195 | — | — |
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).