Entry № 5872 · Italian origin

Letizia Letizia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ leh-TEET-zee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Happiness, joy"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "happiness, joy".

Letizia is the Italian form of Laetitia — from the Latin laetitia, meaning "joy" or "happiness." Maria Letizia Bonaparte (1750-1836) was Napoleon's mother.

Letizia is widely used in Italy and Spain.

Joy. Queen of Spain. Napoleon's mother.

The name in its native script.

Letizia
Transliteration
Letizia
Pronunciation
/ ləˈtiː.tsi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Letizia stands.

Letizia 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.

Letizias before her.

Real people
Queen Letizia of Spain
Queen consort of Spain since 2014.
born 1972
In fiction

Names connected to Letizia.

The number behind Letizia.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Letizia reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.