Leticia
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning joy, gladness.
Leticia by the numbers
In 2025, 12 babies in England and Wales were named Leticia. In the US, 134 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 1,070 babies in 1980, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Leticia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean joy
Like Leticia, each of these has joy in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Abigailmy father's joy10,557 in the US (2017)
- Asherhappy, blessed6,076 in the US (2017)
- Edendelight, paradise594 in England and Wales (2025)
- Jocelyncheerful or joyful; from Jocundus1,828 in the US (2017)
- Tatumcheerful or bringer of joy1,159 in the US (2017)
- Joyjoy; gladness and pleasure971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Leticia
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