first name
LETITIA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 7,875 people named Letitia, 48.1% reported their origin as White, 39.3% as Black and 6.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Letitia peaked in 1964, when 329 babies got the name.
At least 11,408 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Letitia by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #789. The largest share of babies named Letitia, 34.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Letitia is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Letitia has been most common in District of Columbia (2.3×), Pennsylvania (2.1×), and Virginia (1.8×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.23×).
6,757 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Letitia, most common first.
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