Letitia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Letitia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Letitia: Recorded since 1966, it reached #284 in 2003, and it stood at #5,687 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#284highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#562
1997	#983
1998	#724
1999	#721
2000	#930
2001	#962
2002	#761
2003	#1176
2004	#963
2005	#971
2006	#1386
2007	#1384
2008	#1641
2009	#2148
2010	#2589
2011	#3549
2012	#2521
2013	#5742
2014	#5691
2015	#3615
2016	#4096
2017	#4063
2019	#4686
2021	#5581
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 15 of the 47 years from 1966 to 2012.

In 2012: #907 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2521 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1966–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1966
First recorded at #380 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1966 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2003–2008
Highest recorded position: #284 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2003–2008).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #5687 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Letitia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 25 ranked years and 400 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1966.

Letitia across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Letitia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#380 (1966)	#354 (1967)	#907 (2012)	15 of 47	50 (1966–2012)	4 (1967)
England and Wales · Girls	#562 (1996)	#562 (1996)	#5687 (2023)	25 of 28	400 (1996–2023)	44 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#284 (2003)	#284 (2003)	#370 (2008)	3 of 6	11 (2003–2008)	4 (2003)

Letitia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Letitia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	129	4 of 10	32
2000sbusiest	214	10 of 10	21
2010s	51	9 of 10	6
2020s	6	2 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Letitia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1966 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #284 in Northern Ireland in 2003.

Letitia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1384	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1386	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#971	27	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#963	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1176	19	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#761	33	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#962	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#930	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#721	32	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#724	32	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#983	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#562	44	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	4	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1966 and 2023, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #284, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 37 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Leszek · #192, 33y
Leticia · #842, 29y
Lettie · #434, 17y
Letty · #1296, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Seline · #284, 35y
Dario · #286, 33y
Robertas · #287, 36y
Clyde · #279, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Celia · #284, 46y
Dejan · #284, 37y
Jeanne · #284, 47y
Lavinia · #284, 49y

Letitia was ranked #284 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Letitia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Letitia without appearing here.

Letitia moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #492 and #344 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2002 that had become #512 and #620.

Moved ahead of Letitia

Teddy Compare
In 2012 they stood at #761 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2460.
Diane Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2521 and #2717 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2649.
Luca Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2521 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2649.
Finley Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #2942.

Moved the opposite way to Letitia

Aisling Compare
Between 1966 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Letitia went from #380 to #907 while Aisling went from #100 to #42.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1966 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Letitia went from #380 to #907 while Alexandra went from #288 to #105.
Caoimhe Compare
Between 1966 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Letitia went from #380 to #907 while Caoimhe went from #380 to #16.
Cara Compare
Between 1966 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Letitia went from #380 to #907 while Cara went from #344 to #48.

Moved the same way as Letitia

Alma Compare
Between 1966 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Letitia went from #380 to #907 and Alma from #310 to #677.
Audrey Compare
Between 1966 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Letitia went from #380 to #907 and Audrey from #63 to #768.
Camilla Compare
Between 1966 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Letitia went from #380 to #907 and Camilla from #236 to #612.
Diane Compare
Between 1966 and 2012 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Letitia went from #380 to #907 and Diane from #185 to #768.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1966 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #284 in Northern Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Letitia

Letitia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Letitia across 3 official records

Letitia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Letitia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Letitia at a glance

Letitia across 3 official records

Letitia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Letitia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Letitia

Letitia and the names beside it

Letitia moved ahead of

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