Letecia
Feminine · “joy (through Leticia)”
Letecia is Leticia with one letter changed, and in English that letter changes nothing you can hear: a stressed e before -cia says ee, as it does in Lucretia, so the name is still le-TEE-sha. Spanish reads the same letters differently, and there the swap moves the vowel.
How old is the name Letecia?
Letecia first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Letecia alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 500 people named Letecia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Letecia most popular?
Letecia peaked in 1975, reaching #2811 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Latin laetitia to Letecia
The story of Letecia
The line starts with laetitia, an ordinary Latin noun for gladness, which the Romans also gave a face as the personified Joy on their coins. It became a given name in medieval Europe and settled into Spanish as Leticia, with the Latin ae reduced to a plain e. Letecia is an American respelling of that Spanish form, and apart from its one altered vowel it has no separate history: everything older belongs to Leticia.
Meaning
joy (through Leticia)
Letecia is a spelling of Leticia, the Spanish and English form of the Latin laetitia, joy. The meaning belongs to the root name and comes with the spelling.
How the name formed
- Latin laetitia
- Leticia
- Letecia
Related forms: Leticia · Letizia · Letícia · Laetitia · Letitia
Pronouncing Letecia
leh-TEE-shuh
In English, identical to Leticia. A Spanish speaker reading the letters would say leh-TEH-sya, with a short e where Leticia has ee, so the spelling sounds different only in Spanish.
Nicknames for Letecia
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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 197526 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2811reached in 1975
- Change vs 2003
- 0.0%5 in 2004, from 5
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.
Letecia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Leticia in Spanish — spelling variant
- Letizia in Italian — related form
- Letícia in Portuguese — related form
- Laetitia in French — related form
- Letitia in English — related form
Letecias among us
people named Letecia 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
Letecia 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
- Carries a settled meaning, joy, through one of the oldest names in its family.
- Said exactly like Leticia in English, so it is heard correctly from the first introduction.
- Leti and Letty are ready-made short forms with long use behind them.
- Most people will write Leticia, and Spanish speakers will read the e as a different vowel; spelling it out is part of the deal.
- Because the difference is invisible in English speech, the spelling will usually need a quick note on forms. It is a small, steady chore rather than a problem.
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Frequently asked
- How many Letecias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Letecia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Letecia in 2025?
- Letecia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Letecia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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