Name Awesome

Letty

#1,386 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Lettice

Letty has been given to 4,615 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,386 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 163 recorded.

Babies named Letty, 2025

1 in 21,000

Letty over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Letty: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Lettice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Letty means

Letty is a diminutive of Lettice.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Letty is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lettice and Letitia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,615 girls were recorded with the name Letty between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 163 in 2016; its best national rank was #819 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,710 in 2020 to #1,386 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,671 in 2015 to #1,386 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 Letty?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,000
158 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,386
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,545 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Letty 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 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,545 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Letty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lettys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Letty was born before 1967 — so the typical Letty is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,910
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (987).

Is Letty 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
+226
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+324
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+285
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.9%
Peak was 2016 (163)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#819
1892

Spellings of Letty

Letty is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 74.4% against Letty's 0.34%.

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 Letty is used

Across 2016–2025, Letty was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 2,439 girls, against 1 in 14,333 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

141 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 2,439
  2. 2Iowa1 in 2,500
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 3,226
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 4,762
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 5,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 5,556
  7. 7Ohio1 in 5,556
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 5,556

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.

Letty around the world

Where Letty 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
    1997–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #675
    in 2016
  • France
    2003–2025
    #2,392
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Letty

People whose public names include Letty, 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.

Letty by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,386
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 324
Best rank ever
#819
1892
Peak year
2016
163 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,615
Count in 2025
158

Names similar to Letty

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

GittyLettieLetaLettaLettiYittyDottyLethaKattyMattyKittyLethiaLetishaLetitiaLetiziaLeticiaLetiaEttyPattyJettyLetisiaHettyScottyLety

Names with a curve like Letty

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

PerryIraNoellaBeaVedaArieEvelinaCoralieZeldaMapleOdetteDelta

Sibling names for Letty

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

Explore around Letty

Top names of 2016, Letty's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 1892Girls' names starting with L