Letizia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a female personal name derived from the Latin name Lxietitia, meaning ‘happiness’, ‘gaiety’ (from laetus ‘joyous’, ‘happy’)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/letitt͡sja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Letizia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 471K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a female personal name derived from the Latin name Lxietitia, meaning ‘happiness’, ‘gaiety’ (from laetus ‘joyous’, ‘happy’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Letizia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #343 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 322 | Letizia | 180 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 165 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 706 | 1 in 471K | 1K | Letizia | 152 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Letizia | 8 |
| FR France | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 415 | Letizia | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 33 | Letizia | 41 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 50 | Letizia | 46 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Letizia 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 Italian, joy, happiness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Bel nome italico di evidente significato; i Francesi lo scrivono Latifia e lo pronunziano Leliaise. Non presente nel calendario dei santi.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Bel nome italico D di evidente significato: i Francesi. forse per dissimularne L'origine, lo scrivono latina- mente Laelifia e lo pronunziano gallicamente Leliaici. Non si trova nel calendario dei Santi.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Gioia
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian form of LETTICE . This was the given name of Napoleon's mother.
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Letizia Quarantab. 1892ITItalian actress (1892–1977)
- Letizia Battagliab. 1935ITItalian photographer (1935-2022)
- Letizia Bertonib. 1937ITItalian sprinter and hurdler
- Letícia Románb. 1941ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress
- Letizia Morattib. 1949ITItalian businesswoman and politician (1949)
- Maria Letizia Gorgab. 1966ITItalian actress
- Letizia Ortizb. 1972ESqueen consort of Spain since 2014
- Letizia Ciampab. 1986ITItalian actress
- Letizia Lamartireb. 1987ITItalian film director and screenwriter
- Letizia Paternosterb. 1999ITItalian racing cyclist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 78 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 705 | #16,095 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2020 | 415 | #3,011 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 322 | #96 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 21 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 21 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 9 | #2,196 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2014 | 7 | #1,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #16,095 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Letizia mean, and where does it come from?
- from a female personal name derived from the Latin name Lxietitia, meaning ‘happiness’, ‘gaiety’ (from laetus ‘joyous’, ‘happy’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Letizia?
- A machine transcription gives /letitt͡sja/ (IPA) for Italian.
- In which country does Letizia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Letizia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled letizia.
- How common is the name Letizia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 706 people named Letizia in 2020, about 1 in 471 thousand residents.
- How common is Letizia compared with other names?
- In Italy, Letizia is the 343rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- Is Letizia a male or female name?
- Letizia 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 are other forms of the name Letizia?
- In the etymology graph, Leticia, Laetitia and Latisha are forms of the same name in other languages.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/letiziaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Letizia” — the 343rd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.