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Letty
About Letty
Letty is a sweet vintage gem, playful and cosy and more unexpected than Lottie, the popular pet form of popular Charlotte. Originally used as a nickname for Letitia or Lettice, it could also work for Scarlett, Juliet, Violet, Leighton, Arlette, Loretta, Colette, or Liberty.
While Letty has yet to catch up with alternative spelling Lettie, it has been fairly consistently used in the US since 2016. Given to around 130 girls in a recent year, parents may have taken inspiration from the character Letty Ortiz from the Fast and Furious franchise, played by Michelle Rodriguez.
As of 2024, neither Lettie nor Letty were in the Top 1000 in the US, however, when you combine them together, the name begins to feel as popular as the similar Lottie and Lacey.
Pronounced LEHT-ee.
As of October 2026, Letty ranked #1386 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #819 in 1892.
Editor's take: The name Letty is a girl's name of English origin meaning "joy, gladness".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,003 | 99 | 55.4 |
| 2015 | #1,671 | 128 | 71.7 |
| 2016 | #1,423 | 163 | 92 |
| 2017 | #1,450 | 156 | 90.4 |
| 2018 | #1,526 | 143 | 84.1 |
| 2019 | #1,485 | 148 | 88.2 |
| 2020 | #1,708 | 119 | 73.6 |
| 2021 | #1,704 | 122 | 74.4 |
| 2022 | #1,587 | 134 | 81.7 |
| 2023 | #1,466 | 150 | 93.5 |
| 2024 | #1,607 | 130 | 80.2 |
| 2025 | #1,386 | 158 | 98.3 |
World rankings
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Famous Lettys
- Letty Lind
English actress and burlesque performer
- Letty Aronson
American film producer and sister of Woody Allen
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
American writer and cofounder of Ms. Magazine
Letty in pop culture
- "Letty Lynton
" 1932 film starring Joan Crawford as the title character
- Letty Larkspur
character in "Bright Young Things" by Anna Godberson
- Letty
character in video game "Alice Mare"
- Letty Whiterock
character in the "Touhou Project" game series
- Letty Ortiz
character in "The Fast and the Furious" movies
- "Letty Fox: Her Luck
" novel by Christina Stead
- Letty Raines
character in the TNT show, "Good Behavior"