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 reduces to five — the number of joy.