Lettice

Girls' name

Happiness, blessedness, through Letitia

Lettice has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1922, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Lettice, 1969

1 in 695,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lettice: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness, blessedness, through Letitia

Latin

What Lettice means

Lettice belongs to the name family reached through Lettice → Letitia → laetitia. Its meaning is “happiness, blessedness”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lettice is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Letitia and laetitia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lettice is pronounced /ˈlɛtɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Lettice between 1922 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1922; its best national rank was #3,856 in 1922.

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 Lettice?

Lettice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969: 1 in 695,000; 5 of 3,475,126 births
Among girls only: 1 in 337,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1969: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,756 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lettice 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 1969 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 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lettice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lettices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lettice was born before 1959 — so the typical Lettice is around 66 today.

Median birth year: 1959; About 66 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 55.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Lettice 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 1922 (8)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,856; 1922

Spellings of Lettice

Lettice is not the most common spelling — Nettie is, with 27.5% against Lettice's 0.01%.

Nettie27.5%49,443
Lottie26.9%48,352
Bettie21.3%38,395
Lettie6.2%11,097
Latrice5.1%9,137
Hettie4.1%7,294
Leatrice3.3%5,864
Jettie2.0%3,665

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.

Lettice around the world

Where Lettice 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
2007–2018
#5,666
in 2018
South Australia
1998–1998
#710
in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lettice 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: #3,856; 1922
Peak year: 1922; 8 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 1969
All-time count: 18
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lettice

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

Letrice Letavia Letrece Lettica Letosha Letycia Leticha Lethie Leteshia Leteisha Annalice Letara Letrisha Letoria Lettye Letrina Letrica Letrese Vertice Earnice Seanice Letisa Analice Alarice

Sibling names for Lettice

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena Philomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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