Meaning not yet researched.
Letty: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 158 in 2025. Its best rank was #819 in 1892.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #819 in 1892; #1,386 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Letty in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,386 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1892, at #819.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Letty: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 158 girls in 2025. Peak: #819 in 1892 · most girls in one year: 163 (2016).
In 2025, 158 US girls were named Letty, making it the 1,386th most common girls’ name of the year, up 226 places from #1,612 in 2024. That is 28 more than the 130 girls named Letty in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #819, reached in 1892. The most girls given the name in a single year was 163, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,671 in 2015 and #1,888 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Letty in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 4,615 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 987 babies named Letty.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,426 US girls were named Letty; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 163. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,173 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Letty ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #180 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lettie (11,097 babies since 1880) and Letti (599 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lety and Leathy 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: Lety (100), Leathy (6).
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 Letty 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 6 | #180 | — |
| Minnesota | 10 | #526 | #828 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #750 | #811 |
| Maryland | 6 | #797 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #848 | #1,388 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #974 | #1,334 |
| Virginia | 7 | #995 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,065 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,132 | #1,029 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,340 | #1,569 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,346 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,803 | #2,137 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 2024 | 130 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2023 | 150 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 2022 | 134 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 2019 | 149 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 2018 | 144 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2017 | 157 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 2016 | 163 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 2015 | 128 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 2014 | 99 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,297 | — | — |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,635 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,554 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,453 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,292 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,469 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,057 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,620 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,659 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,579 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,211 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,698 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,986 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,375 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,244 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,117 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,272 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,748 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,506 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,339 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,322 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,004 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,874 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,464 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,904 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,979 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,037 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,171 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,443 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,764 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,071 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,258 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,391 | — | — |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,707 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1960 | 48 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1958 | 63 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1942 | 57 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1935 | 46 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1934 | 45 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1932 | 56 | #949 | — | — |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1928 | 54 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1926 | 58 | #984 | — | — |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1924 | 64 | #957 | — | — |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1921 | 38 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1920 | 50 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1919 | 48 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1906 | 15 | #990 | — | — |
| 1905 | 15 | #992 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1903 | 14 | #955 | — | — |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1892 | 14 | #819 | — | — |
| 1891 | 9 | #976 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #888 | — | — |
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).