Leti

Girls' name

Gladness, through Leticia

Leti has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 2018, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Leti, 2024

1 in 478,000

Leti over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leti: meaning, origin, and history

Gladness, through Leticia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leti means

Leti belongs to the name family reached through Leti → Leticia. Its meaning is “gladness”.

Origin, language, and formation

Leti is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leticia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Leti between 1960 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2018; its best national rank was #6,073 in 1960.

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 Leti?

Leti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 478,000; 7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 231,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 331,009 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Leti 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Letis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leti was born before 2019 — so the typical Leti is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 48.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 78.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 79; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Leti 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2018 (10)
Years since peak: 7; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,073; 1960

Spellings of Leti

Leti is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 22.7% against Leti's <0.01%.

Lori22.7%341,911
Leah17.1%256,488
Beth10.6%159,430
Lena9.7%146,479
Lee4.1%62,299
Teri2.9%43,957
Lela2.9%43,005
Lea2.3%33,848

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.

Leti around the world

Where Leti 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.

South Australia
2008–2008
#796
in 2008

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Leti 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: —
Best rank ever: #6,073; 1960
Peak year: 2018; 10 that year
First recorded: 1960
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 79
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Leti

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

Lety Neeti Letzy Letti Letina Letita Letta Lethea Letia Letonia Letica Letanya Lettye Lether Letoria Keti Letoya Letizia Letetia Areti Lethie Letonya Letara Letesha

Sibling names for Leti

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

For a sister

Oaklyn Keily Zaylee Aislinn Khaleesi Emberly Avah Jemma

For a brother

Torin Kamryn Merrick Bilal Mordechai Zaid Brecken Joziah

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