Leticia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the Latin personal name Laetitia; see |Lettice in main dictionary
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leticia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 434(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 520
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #458 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 421 (measured from records)
- 1 in 434 (inferred from the name graph)
487,449 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Latin personal name Laetitia; see |Lettice in main dictionary.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leticia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #98 | 487,449 | 1 in 434 | 487K | Leticia | 218 |
| US United States | #531 | 83,202 | 1 in 4K | 83K | Leticia | 421 |
| PH Philippines | #271 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Leticia | 72 |
| TZ Tanzania | #446 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Leticia | 20 |
| AR Argentina | #315 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 75 | Leticia | 121 |
| PY Paraguay | #49 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 520 | — | Leticia | 55 |
| SV El Salvador | #122 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Leticia | 41 |
| HN Honduras | #14 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Leticia | 36 |
487,449 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present). 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Letícia Románb. 1941ITItalian actress
- Marisa Letícia Lula da Silvab. 1950BR35th First Lady of Brazil (1950–2017)
- Lucia Mendezb. 1955MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and singer
- Lee See Yin Leticiab. 1964CNHong Kong pro-establishment activist (1964-2020)
- Leticia Huijarab. 1967MXMexican actress
- Tish Cyrusb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and producer
- Leticia Calderónb. 1968MXMexican actress
- Leticia Brediceb. 1972ARArgentine actress
- Leticia Dolerab. 1981ESSpanish actress
- Leticia Romerob. 1995ESSpanish basketball player (born 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(measured from records)
Attested in 93 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 487K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 485K | #45 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 436K | #96 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 434K | #16 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 83K | #635 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #45 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 128 | #635 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 120 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 75 | #871 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 47 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 47 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Leticia?
- In the etymology graph, Laetitia, Latisha and Tisha are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Leticia mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Latin personal name Laetitia; see |Lettice in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Leticia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 487 thousand people named Leticia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leticia.
- Where is Leticia most common?
- Leticia is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 434 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Leticia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 487,449 people named Leticia in 2022, about 1 in 434 residents.
- How common is Leticia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Leticia is the 98th most common given name of 474,894 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 do you want to know about Leticia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leticiaThe 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, “Leticia” — the 98th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.