Leta

Where Leta comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Leta.

  • Vowel-ended
Leta through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls, with 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Leta Stetter Hollingworth born
    American psychologist
  3. 1890
    Peak, #317
    63 babies named Leta, its best rank.
  4. 1964
    Leta Peer born
    Swiss artist
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,986.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Leta Stetter Hollingworth · American psychologist, 1886–1939
  • Leta Peer · Swiss artist, 1964–2012
  • Leta Hong Fincher · American journalist and writer
  • Leta Semadeni · Swiss author, born 1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.