girls:
19.1k births since 1880
#1059 (81st percentile)
boys:
25 births since 1909
#4561 (0th percentile)
overall:
19.2k births since 1880
#1852 (76th percentile)
The name Letha is the #1,852 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,162 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,059 (81.5% percentile) for all time with 19,137 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,561 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 1909.
Letha has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1909 for boys). Birth data for Letha is available in 133 out of the 141 years between 1880 and 2020 (133 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Letha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Letha reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 53.3% percentile (ranked #276) with 393 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 593 births per million (ranked 41.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
For boys, Letha reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #532) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 34 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Letha".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Letha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.8% confident that Letha is pronounced as LEE-thuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-thuh, at 26.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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