girls:
42.7k births since 1916
#649 (89th percentile)
boys:
215 births since 1960
#4371 (5th percentile)
overall:
43k births since 1916
#1186 (85th percentile)
The name Leticia is the #1,186 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 42,961 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 84.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #649 (88.7% percentile) for all time with 42,746 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,371 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 215 births since 1960.
Leticia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1960 for boys). Birth data for Leticia is available in 103 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (103 years for girls and 26 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 Leticia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leticia reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 70.4% percentile (ranked #233) with 601 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 660 births per million (ranked 70.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Leticia ranks #828 for girls (12.6% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 10.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leticia reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #651) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leticia".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Leticia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.5% confident that Leticia is pronounced as luh-TIH-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-TEE-shuh, at 20.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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