Leta

Where Leta comes from

Leta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Leta Stetter Hollingworth born
    American psychologist
  3. 1890
    Peak, #317
    63 babies named Leta — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.