Letisha
Feminine · “joy”
One spelling of this name writes the Latin and the other writes the sound. Laetitia preserves the word it came from, ligature and all, and tells a reader nothing about how to say it; Letisha abandons the etymology entirely and can be read correctly by anybody on sight.
How old is the name Letisha?
Letisha first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Letisha alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 1,800 people named Letisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Letisha most popular?
Letisha peaked in 1979, reaching #1097 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From laetitia to Letisha
The story of Letisha
One woman carrying the fuller name was among the most widely read poets of her decade and died at thirty-six in circumstances nobody has explained. She published under three initials, produced enormous quantities of verse for the annuals that dominated popular literature, supported her family on it, and was pursued by rumors about her private life for years. She married a colonial governor, sailed to West Africa, and was found dead in her room within weeks with a bottle of prussic acid in her hand. Accident, suicide and murder have all been argued, and no inquest of any weight was held.
Meaning
joy, gladness
A Latin abstract noun used as a name from the Roman period. The sense is secure and neither spelling affects it; what they differ about is whether the reader is expected to know Latin.
How the name formed
- laetitia
- Letitia
- Letisha
Pronouncing Letisha
luh-TEE-shuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. This spelling can only be read one way, which the Latin one emphatically cannot.
Nicknames for Letisha
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
- 1958
- Most girls named
- 1979124 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1097reached in 1979
- Change vs 2005
- −16.7%5 in 2023, from 6
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.
Letishas among us
people named Letisha 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
Letisha 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
- The spelling is unambiguous where every etymological version is not.
- The meaning is unusually pleasant and genuinely inherited.
- Tish sits inside it as a short form that needs no explaining.
- Letitia and Leticia are both standard and this gets corrected constantly.
- The phonetic spelling loses the Latin the name is often chosen for.
- It is closely tied to the decades of its use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Letishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Letisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Letisha in 2025?
- Letisha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Letisha with classmates?
- Letisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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