Letitia
Below 5 births
About Letitia
Letitia is a delicate, once prim and proper sounding name whose staid image has been unbuttoned by numerous phonetic spellings. The original, often used in Spanish-speaking families, would still make an attractive, delicate choice. After a solid century on the Top 1000 list, Letitia fell off in the early 1980s and has not yet returned.
Letitia has a First Lady heritage, as the wife of President John Tyler. Letitia Baldridge, White House social secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy, was often known as Tish. These days, most parents would prefer the sweet, gold-locket pet forms Letty or Lettie.
Spelled Laetitia, she was the Roman goddess of celebration, happiness and gaiety. The name appeared in the form Lettice in medieval England.
Pronounced luh-TI-shuh.
As of October 2026, Letitia ranked #12852 in US births in 2024 SSA, peaked at #346 in 1880.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Letitia on lists
Famous Letitias
- Letitia Christian Tyler
U.S. First Lady as wife of President John Tyler
- Letitia Green Stevenson
wife of U.S. Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I
- Letitia Michelle Wright
Guyanese,British actress
- Letitia "Tish" Baldrige
American etiquette expert and White House secretary
- Letitia Jane Dean
English actress
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
English poet and novelist
- Letitia James
American political activist, New York City Public Advocate
- Letitia Alma Vriesde
Surinamese sprinter
- Letitia Marion Hamilton
Irish painter
- Letitia Chitty
English engineer
- Letitia Gwynne
Irish TV journalist
- Letitia Woods Brown
American researcher and academic
- Letitia MacTavish Hargrave
Scottish,Canadian fur trader and diarist
- Letitia Youmans
Canadian temperance leader
Letitia in pop culture
- Letitia
character in "Sadie Rocks: Happiness and All That Stuff" by Karen McCombie
- Jane Letitia Penderwick
character in the Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall
- Letitia Ketterley "Aunt Letty
" character in the Chronicles of Narnia series
- "Letitia Lerner
Superman's Babysitter," DC Comics story by Kyle Baker
- Letitia Prism
a character in Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest"
- Letitia
Missy's mother in the film "Surviving Christmas"
- Letitia M. Slighcarp
recurring villain in Joan Aiken's "Wolves Chronicles" books
- Letitia “Leti” Lewis
character on the HBO TV series “Lovecraft Country”