Laetitia
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Laetitia is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 100th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin name meaning “joy”; variant spelling of Letitia.
- FRFrance1 in 513◐
- BEBelgium1 in 1.1K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈135K ●
- Sources
- 369 ●
- 1 in 513 ◐
across 9 countries
529K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Latitia in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Latin name meaning “joy”; variant spelling of Letitia.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #113 | 132,205 | 482K rec. | 1 in 513 | 132K | Laetitia | 369 |
| BE Belgium | #100 | 14,075 | 13K rec. | — | 5 | Laetitia | 120 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,153 | 1.7K rec. | — | listed | Laetitia | 83 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 1,951 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Laetitia | 43 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,847 | 1.6K rec. | — | 5 | Laetitia | 102 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,583 | 740 rec. | — | 6 | Laetitia | 76 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,526 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1 | Laetitia | 80 |
| CH Switzerland | #458 | 1,452 | 921 rec. | — | — | Laetitia | 81 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,434△ | 391 rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Laetitia | 42 |
| AT Austria | — | 983 | 72 rec. | — | 278 | Laetitia | 25 |
| US United States | — | 883 | 12K rec. | 1 in 377K | 883 | Latitia | 189 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #334 | 436 | 30 rec. | — | 5 | Laetitia | 11 |
Roughly 132K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 513). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French979K97%
- English11K1%
- Dutch3.1K1%
- German3.1K1%
- Western Frisian2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 978,542 | 97% |
| English | 11,411 | 1% |
| Dutch | 3,118 | 1% |
| German | 3,072 | 1% |
| Western Frisian | 1,972 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Laetitia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a female given name of 1980s popular usage, equivalent to English Letitia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du latin laetitia « allégresse, joie, liesse »; fêté comme prénom chrétien, associé à la joie.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin laetitia « joie »; fête le 18 août (sainte Laetitia).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Nom latin signifiant « allégresse ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Latin laetitia, 'joy, gladness'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1916 | 7 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1933 | 6 |
| 1938 | 8 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1965 | 8 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 11 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2019 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1916–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Lætitia Bonaparteb. 1804FRnot in their usual name(1804-1871)
- Laetitia d'Arenbergb. 1941UYUruguayan businesswoman and socialite
- Laetitia Meignanb. 1960FRFrench judoka
- Laetitia Massonb. 1966FRFrench film director and screenwriter
- Laeticia Smetb. 1975FRnot in their usual nameFrench model, Johnny Hallyday's wife
- Laetitia Castab. 1978FRFrench actress and model
- Laetitia Fourcadeb. 1978FRFrench actress
- Laetitia Corynb. 1984FRFrench comics artist
- Laetitia Guarinob. 1992CHSwiss model
- Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgiumb. 2003BEBelgian and Austro-Este Imperial and Royal
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 63 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 132K | #2,110 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.4K | #1,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 883 | #13,608 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 278 | #1,039 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 136 | #12,345 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 127 | #5,771 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 100 | #5,368 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 83 | #9,714 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 79 | #1,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 79 | #1,778 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 78 | #9,117 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 38 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 423 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Laetitia?
- We estimate roughly 135 thousand people bear Laetitia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Laetitia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 132 thousand people bear Laetitia in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled laetitia.
- Where is Laetitia most common?
- Laetitia is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 513 people carrying it.
- How common is Laetitia compared with other names?
- In France, Laetitia is the 113th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Laetitia a male or female name?
- Laetitia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Laetitia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Latin name meaning “joy”; variant spelling of Letitia.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Laetitia” — the 113th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.