Leta
About 11,944 American babies have been named Leta since 1880, most of them around 1918. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 4,200 Letas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,944
- Estimated living today
- 4,200
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 435th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,457th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Letas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,944 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,200 are alive — 35 in every hundred. Roughly 210 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Letas
- Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886–1939)American psychologist
People named Leta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Leta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Leta is most concentrated in Oklahoma (8.9×), Missouri (5.2×), Kansas (4.5×), Arkansas (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Leta peaked:
Leta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland girls | Leta | 19 | 1,168th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Leta: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Leta | 17 | 0.001% | 881st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Leta | 2 | 0.054% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Leta against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.