Leatrice
Feminine · “weary and blessed”
Leatrice was made for one person. A film actress's mother built it from Lea and Beatrice, and the registers show it appearing in the 1920s and following her career exactly.
How old is the name Leatrice?
Leatrice first appears in US birth records in 1908 — 117 years ago. The typical Leatrice alive today was born around 1932, making them about 93 years old. About 2,200 people named Leatrice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leatrice most popular?
Leatrice peaked in 1927, reaching #350 nationally. See the whole 1927 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Lea to Leatrice
The story of Leatrice
Leatrice Joy was a silent-film actress whose name was built by her mother from Lea and Beatrice — one of the clearest documented cases of a deliberate coinage entering general use. She became widely known in the early 1920s, and the name appears in American records from that period, peaking around 1926.
Meaningscholars disagree
weary and blessed
A blend of Lea and Beatrice. Leah is Hebrew, generally read as 'weary' though the origin is disputed; Beatrice is Latin beatrix, 'she who makes happy' or 'blessed'. The compound is a twentieth-century American coinage, so the meaning is the sum of its halves rather than an inherited one.
How the name formed
- Lea
- Beatrice
- Leatrice
Related forms: Leatrix · Beatrice · Beatrice
Pronouncing Leatrice
LEE-uh-trees
Three syllables, stress on the first. Some bearers say lee-AT-riss with the stress in the middle.
Nicknames for Leatrice
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1908
- Most girls named
- 1925337 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #350reached in 1927
- Change vs 1999
- −25.0%6 in 2002, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Leatrice in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Leatrix in English — spelling variant
- Beatrice in English — related form
- Beatrice in Italian — related form
Leatrices among us
people named Leatrice are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Leatrice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Its coinage is unusually well documented — a specific person and decade.
- Both halves are substantial names with their own histories.
- Lea is available as a short form with a biblical record.
- The stress placement splits between two readings.
- It is a modern blend rather than an inherited name.
- It is strongly period-coded to the 1920s and 1930s.
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- How many Leatrices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Leatrice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Leatrice in 2025?
- Leatrice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Leatrice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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