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Leticia vs Letticia

American parents have registered 43,199 Leticias since 1880, against 581 Letticias. Leticia is still ahead, with 120 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leticia against Letticia, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leticia Letticia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Leticia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Leticia had 119 and Letticia had 8.

Side by side

  Leticia Letticia
Total US births 43,199581
Most in one year 1,07923
Babies in 2025 120under 5
Estimated living today 40,000550
Median age today 4644
Peak year 19801971
Best rank 240th girls2,955th girls
Rank in 2025 1,703rdunranked
First recorded 19161952
Girls / boys 42,984 / 215581 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Leticias alive today are over 46; half the Letticias are over 44. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Leticia Letticia
England and Wales 5114

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leticia and Letticia.