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Laetitia

Girls' name

Happiness

Laetitia has been given to 375 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Laetitia, 2019

1 in 694,000

Laetitia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laetitia: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness

Latin

What Laetitia means

Laetitia means “happiness”, associated with laetitia.

Origin, language, and formation

Laetitia is used in English, French and Latin. Its origins include Latin.

Laetitia comes through Latin Laetitia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Letitia, Léticie, Liesse and liesse.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Laetitia is pronounced /le.ti.sja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 375 girls were recorded with the name Laetitia between 1916 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2004; its best national rank was #3,314 in 1938.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Laetitia?

Laetitia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laetitia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laetitia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laetitias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laetitia was born before 1982 — so the typical Laetitia is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
311
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2000s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Laetitia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (12)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,314
1938

Spellings of Laetitia

Laetitia is not the most common spelling — Leticia is, with 73.4% against Laetitia's 0.64%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Laetitia around the world

Where Laetitia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2020
    #3,447
    in 2020
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,778
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Laetitia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,314
1938
Peak year
2004
12 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
375
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laetitia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Laetitia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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