Entry № 5870 · Spanish origin

Leticia Leticia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ leh-TEE-see-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Happiness / joy (Queen Letizia of Spain; Leticia Bufoni skateboarder)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "happiness / joy (queen letizia of spain; leticia bufoni skateboarder)".

Leticia is the Spanish form of Letitia — from the Latin laetitia ("happiness, joy, gladness"). Leticia Astrid Hernández — Mexican-American journalist. Leticia Cline — American model. Letizia Caracciolo (Roman princess).

Happiness / joy.

The name in its native script.

Leticia
Transliteration
Leticia
Pronunciation
/ ləˈtiː.si.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leticia stands.

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.

Leticias before her.

Real people
Leticia Bufoni
Brazilian X Games skateboarder.
born 1993
Leticia Calderón
Mexican telenovela actress.
born 1968
In fiction
Leticia
Various Spanish telenovelas.

Names connected to Leticia.

The number behind Leticia.

5

The Seeker

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.