Letitia

Where Letitia comes from

Name of an obscure Spanish saint, Leticia, from Latin laetitia "gladness".
— Wiktionary's entry for Letitia
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Letitia through the years
  1. 1790
    Letitia Christian Tyler born
    First Lady of the United States
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #342 among girls with 22 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1993
    Letitia Wright born
    Guyanese actress
  4. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #12,056.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, popular in medieval England; rather rare today.
Namesakes
  • Letitia Wright · Guyanese actress, born 1993
  • Letitia Christian Tyler · First Lady of the United States, 1790–1842
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon · British poet and novelist, 1802–1838
  • Letitia Vriesde · Surinamese athletics competitor, born 1964
  • Letitia James · Attorney General of New York since 2019, born 1958

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.