Lettie

Where Lettie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lettie.

  • Vowel-ended
Lettie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #195 among girls, with 62 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #181
    68 babies named Lettie, its best rank.
  3. 1937
    Lettie Oosthoek born
    Dutch actress
  4. 1953
    Lettie Beckon Alston born
    composer
  5. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,094.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Lettie Oosthoek · Dutch actress, 1937–2026
  • Lettie Beckon Alston · composer, 1953–2014
  • Lettie Cowman · writer and missionary, 1870–1960
  • Lettie A. Allen · Public servant, political activist, feminist, local politician, 1901–1980

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.