Leticia is the Spanish form of Letitia — from the Latin laetitia ("happiness, joy, gladness"). A top-500 US baby name through the 1980s-90s in Hispanic communities. Queen Letizia of Spain (born 1972) — covered separately under "Letizia" — Queen consort since 2014. Leticia Bufoni (born 1993) — Brazilian skateboarder; six-time X Games gold medalist in Women's Street Skateboarding (2010-2018), one of the most-decorated women in X Games history; her 2013 ESPN Body Issue cover made her one of the first female street skateboarders to gain mainstream fame; competed for Brazil at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (skateboarding debut) and the 2024 Paris Olympics. Leticia Calderón (born 1968) — Mexican telenovela actress; Amor Real (2003), Esmeralda (1997). Leticia Astrid Hernández — Mexican-American journalist. Leticia Cline — American model. Letizia Caracciolo (Roman princess). The name Leticia / Letícia / Leticia ranks among the top-100 baby girl names in Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, and several Spanish-speaking countries — making it one of the most-common contemporary forms of "joy" in the Romance-language world.
Featured throughout Hispanic culture and global sports.
Leticia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leticia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.