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Lettie

#757 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Lettice

Lettie has been given to 11,097 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #757 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 358 recorded.

Babies named Lettie, 2025

1 in 9,260

Lettie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lettie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Lettice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lettie means

Lettie is a diminutive of Lettice.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lettie → Lettice → Letitia → laetitia. The family’s meaning is “happiness, blessedness”, recorded in Latin with the source elements laetitia.

Origin, language, and formation

Lettie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lettice and Letitia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,097 girls were recorded with the name Lettie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 358 in 2025; its best national rank was #184 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,465 in 2020 to #757 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,927 in 2015 to #757 in 2025.

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 Lettie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,260
358 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,490
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#757
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lettie 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 2025 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,420 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lettie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Letties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lettie was born before 1927 — so the typical Lettie is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,441
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.1% of all recorded uses (1,564).

Is Lettie 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
+179
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+708
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,170
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (358)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#184
1881

Spellings of Lettie

Lettie is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 31.8% against Lettie's 1.3%.

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.

Where Lettie is used

Across 2016–2025, Lettie was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 1,818 girls, against 1 in 7,457 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 50,000).

255 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 1,818
  2. 2Iowa1 in 2,174
  3. 3Utah1 in 2,273
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 2,326
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 2,381
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 2,439
  7. 7Missouri1 in 3,333
  8. 8Alabama1 in 3,571

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Lettie around the world

Where Lettie 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
    2001–2025
    #747
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2018
    #434
    in 2018
  • France
    2015–2016
    #7,542
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA 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.

Notable people named Lettie

People whose public names include Lettie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lettie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#757
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 708
Best rank ever
#184
1881
Peak year
2025
358 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,097
Count in 2025
358

Names similar to Lettie

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

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Names with a curve like Lettie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lettie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lettie

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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