Leticia

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Leticia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Latin personal name Laetitia; see |Lettice in main dictionary.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 274◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 434
  • HNHonduras1 in 517

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈602K ●

across 8 countries

#190 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
380 ●

2.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 434 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

LeticiaLatin · Portuguese●8.2M records
เลติเซียThai · Thai●3 records
ΛετίσιαGreek · Greek●1 records
레티시아Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Letícia in FR France.

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●

From the Latin personal name Laetitia; see |Lettice in main dictionary.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Leticia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#451,160,056905K rec.—5.8KLeticia208
BR Brazil#35487,449△130K rec.1 in 434487KLeticia215
AR Argentina#334326,228203K rec.—75Leticia115
US United States#52383,074666K rec.1 in 4K83KLeticia380
PH Philippines#25081,57678K rec.——Leticia64
PY Paraguay#4650,88525K rec.——Leticia48
PE Peru#64842,64935K rec.——Leticia58
CL Chile#29840,6444.4K rec.—81Leticia72
SV El Salvador#10236,69331K rec.——Leticia40
HN Honduras#2135,42835K rec.——Leticia35
ES Spain#24022,17147K rec.1 in 2.3K22KLeticia167
GB United Kingdom—11,31314K rec.—4Leticia90

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese8.2M70%
  • Spanish2.2M19%
  • English950K8%
  • 77K1%
  • Catalan22K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese8,174,81170%
Spanish2,190,99519%
English949,5058%
76,7931%
Catalan22,1801%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Leticia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name82K records spelled Leticia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Peru

    Also written Letícia, Léticia, Letìcia

  • Hindi given name7.6K records spelled Leticia13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Peru

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Letícia, Letỉcia, Léticia, লেটিসিয়া

  • Polish given name6.9K records spelled Leticia37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Russia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Летиция, Летисия, Letitia, Letizia, Letisiia

  • Hungarian given name3.3K records spelled Leticia7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Finland, United States, Spain

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Letícia, Leticía

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Leticia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Latín laetitia: 'fecundidad; alegría, felicidad'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Simplified spelling of pLaetitia.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • La que trae alegría y felicidad

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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●

050100150200190019502000171 · 1993

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Leticia in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2024
Yearrecords
19001
19021
19031
19045
19056
19063
19072
19085
19096
19107
19116
19128
19139
19146
19157
191610
191713
191812
191914
19207
192113
192213
192311
192410
192513
192613
19278
192819
192911
193014
193116
193211
193320
193416
193526
193626
193719
193826
193912
194023
194123
194220
194333
194420
194525
194640
194729
194831
194923
195037
195137
195251
195346
195438
195545
195654
195740
195852
195943
196060
196165
196271
196360
196462
196584
1966100
196779
196872
196973
197071
197181
197287
197394
197488
1975101
1976113
1977108
1978123
1979108
198092
198189
198273
198387
1984116
1985135
1986108
1987106
1988102
198974
199068
199157
199273
1993171
1994145
1995136
199697
199744
1998105
199994
200074
200154
200241
200346
200454
200554
200659
200744
200844
200935
201030
201130
201237
201333
201441
201534
201624
201728
201838
201919
202012
202118
20229
202313
202412

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 124 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Letícia Román, b. 1941Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, b. 1950Lucia Mendez, b. 1955Lee See Yin Leticia, b. 1964Leticia Huijara, b. 1967Tish Cyrus, b. 1967Leticia Calderón, b. 1968Leticia Bredice, b. 1972Leticia Dolera, b. 1981Leticia Romero, b. 1995

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 91 sources across 52 countries.

Official registers attesting Leticia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022487K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—485K#45
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—436K#96
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—434K#16
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202083K#635
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—22K#324
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—22K#175
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202015K—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—5.8K#2
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20245.7K#318
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.2K#45
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.1K#336

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 982 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Leticia?
We estimate roughly 602 thousand people bear Leticia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Leticia have the most bearers?
Leticia is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled leticia.
How common is Leticia compared with other names?
In Mexico, Leticia is the 45th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.
Is Leticia a male or female name?
Leticia 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 Leticia mean?
Recorded meaning: From the Latin personal name Laetitia; see |Lettice in main dictionary.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Leticia” — the 45th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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