Letisia
Feminine · “Gladness”
Letisia writes with an s what Latin wrote with a t and Spanish writes with a c, and all three spell one sound. It is a name that has been passed between three languages, each of which wrote down what it heard rather than what it was handed.
How old is the name Letisia?
Letisia first appears in US birth records in 1954 — 71 years ago. The typical Letisia alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 900 people named Letisia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Letisia most popular?
Letisia peaked in 1979, reaching #2304 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Laetitia to Letisia
The story of Letisia
The spelling is the interesting part, and the reason is a sound change that reshaped half the Spanish-speaking world. In most of Spain, the c of Leticia is said with the th of think, a sound distinct from s. Across Latin America and in southern Spain the two merged — a change called seseo — so that c, s and z in these positions all say the same thing. Once they do, spelling becomes a free choice, and the same name can be written Leticia, Letisia or Letizia by three people who pronounce it identically. The name has one small piece of geopolitics attached: a town called Leticia, on the Amazon at the corner where Colombia, Peru and Brazil meet, gave its name to a short and bitter war between the first two, fought in the river and the jungle over a port.
Meaning
Gladness
The Latin word is laetitia, and it means gladness or joy — the state, not the feeling of a moment. Romans used it as a personification on coins, where Laetitia stood for public rejoicing. The name has kept that sense unchanged through Spanish, French and English, whatever letters it has been spelled with.
How the name formed
- Laetitia
- Leticia
- Letisia
Related forms: Leticia · Letizia · Laetitia · Lettice
Pronouncing Letisia
leh-TEE-see-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. The Spanish version runs the ending together as -sya, which English tends to pull apart.
Nicknames for Letisia
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
- 1954
- Most girls named
- 197941 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2304reached in 1979
- Change vs 2009
- −12.5%7 in 2010, 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.
Letisia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Leticia in Spanish — same name
- Letizia in Italian — same name
- Laetitia in French — same name
- Lettice in English — related form
Letisias among us
people named Letisia 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
Letisia 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 meaning is settled, ancient and unambiguously good.
- It works in Spanish and English with no change beyond the pace of the ending.
- It offers short forms in both languages that sound nothing alike, which gives her room.
- Three spellings compete and hers is the least common of them, so it will be corrected often.
- English speakers stumble over the middle of the name until they hear it once.
- The name is read as distinctly Spanish in most of the country, which may or may not be what a family wants.
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Frequently asked
- How many Letisias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Letisia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Letisia in 2025?
- Letisia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Letisia with classmates?
- Letisia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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