Entry № 5871 · Latin origin

Letitia Letitia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ leh-TISH-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Joy, gladness"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "joy, gladness".

Letitia comes from the Latin laetitia, meaning joy and gladness. It reached English through the medieval form Lettice, and has an old, refined elegance.

Borne by the poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon and long a genteel favourite, it offers the sweet nicknames Lettie and Tia.

Graceful and glad, Letitia is joy dressed in classical robes.

Joy — an elegant Latin classic.

The name in its native script.

Letitia
Transliteration
Letitia
Pronunciation
/ ləˈtɪʃ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Letitia stands.

Letitia 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.

Letitias before her.

Real people
Letitia Wright
British Black Panther actress.
born 1993
Letitia James
New York Attorney General.
born 1958
In fiction
Letitia
Common in Victorian fiction.

Names connected to Letitia.

The number behind Letitia.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Letitia reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.