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Lettie

Gender
Girl
Say it
LET-ee
Origin
Latin
UK rank, 2025
#801 for girls
US rank, 2025
#756 for girls

Lettie is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “joy, happiness”. In 2025 it ranked 801st for girls in the UK (49 babies) and 756th for girls in the US (358 babies).

What does Lettie mean?

Latin: pet form of Letitia

“joy, happiness”

A pet form of Letitia, from the Latin laetitia, joy, and occasionally of Violet.

More on Wiktionary.

Is Lettie a girl's or a boy's name?

Lettie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 49 girls in the UK and 358 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lettie in the UK?

Rank in 2025
801st among girls
Babies in 2025
49 about 1 in 5,700 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 39% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 49 girls in the UK were named Lettie, making it the 801st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,431st.

2025 had the most girls named Lettie of any year since it first appeared, in 2001.

Half of all the girls named Lettie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 59 girls in the UK were given Lettie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #641, up from #801 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 747th in England and Wales.

2001Busiest: 49 in 20252025
Lettie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202549#801
202431#1,143
202335#1,051
202232#1,118
202134#1,078
202023#1,431
201923#1,439
201837#1,028
201731#1,186
201628#1,291
201528#1,276
201420#1,596
201319#1,662
20120–
20113#6,007
20100–
20090–
20084#4,742
20070–
20060–
20050–
20044#3,916
20033#4,560
20020–
20014#3,427

How popular is Lettie in the US?

Rank in 2025
756th among girls
Babies in 2025
358 about 1 in 4,500 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fast up 114% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 358 girls in the US were named Lettie, making it the 756th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,459th.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 8 years. 2025 had the most girls named Lettie of any year since the records began in 1880.

Half of all the girls named Lettie in the US since 1880 were born between 1909 and 1960, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 558 girls in the US were given Lettie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #542, up from #756 for this spelling alone.

1880Busiest: 358 in 20252025
Lettie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025358#756
2024282#935
2023215#1,129
2022207#1,166
2021174#1,301
2020147#1,459
2019137#1,566
2018115#1,774
201784#2,236
2016106#1,897
2015105#1,919
201469#2,558
201337#4,000
201234#4,294
201117#7,115
201026#5,245
200910#10,675
20086#15,399
20078#12,671
20067#13,601
20058#11,828
20040–
200310#9,666
20027#12,181
20010–
20000–
19996#12,681
19985#14,116
19975#13,719
19969#8,807
19957#10,509
199411#7,598
19930–
19920–
19919#8,580
199012#6,861
19897#9,675
198810#7,106
19870–
19866#9,540
19858#7,560
19849#6,808
19835#10,272
198213#5,207
198114#4,962
198011#5,911
197916#4,419
197815#4,459
197717#4,068
197611#5,213
197523#3,052
197419#3,426
197317#3,634
197218#3,404
197119#3,373
197018#3,435
196921#2,916
196820#2,874
196730#2,167
196624#2,452
196534#1,993
196439#1,891
196332#2,093
196243#1,731
196138#1,871
196043#1,724
195958#1,406
195868#1,281
195750#1,506
195655#1,412
195569#1,208
195466#1,223
195361#1,240
195276#1,079
195157#1,223
195068#1,113
194968#1,087
194891#909
194775#1,020
194667#1,031
194577#856
194475#881
194393#798
1942101#752
194182#798
194075#820
1939100#678
193889#724
193794#704
193698#666
1935106#631
1934115#617
1933109#624
1932115#616
193191#702
1930122#626
1929123#619
1928103#689
1927136#612
1926154#573
1925174#541
1924201#492
1923187#511
1922151#584
1921183#523
1920152#581
1919170#522
1918161#559
1917164#520
1916168#499
1915190#445
1914133#477
1913142#413
191295#491
191195#414
1910102#390
190994#383
1908116#329
1907108#337
1906105#330
190598#342
190481#363
190379#355
1902108#304
190195#305
1900143#272
189989#316
1898120#279
189799#284
189698#294
1895107#273
1894119#247
189399#269
1892102#262
189190#257
189096#254
188987#251
188890#246
188798#206
188686#213
188570#239
188472#227
188382#184
188268#201
188168#181
188062#195

Names like Lettie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Lottie, Rosie, Elsie, Winnie, Florence, Nellie, Hattie, Annie, Millie, Frankie, Mabel, Ottilie

Other spellings of Lettie

Letty, Letti

More Latin names

Oliver, Olivia, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Luna, Nora, Emilia, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian, Clara, Anthony, Austin

Every Latin name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Lettie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lettie, updated 20 October 2026.