Letitia

Where Letitia comes from

Name of an obscure Spanish saint, Leticia, from Latin laetitia "gladness".
— Wiktionary's entry for Letitia
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  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 — 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.