Leta
Leta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 319th, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918233 births
- Best rank
- #319in 1889
- Since 1880
- 11,934people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,934 girls have been named Leta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 233 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 233 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 289 | |
| 1890s | 666 | |
| 1900s | 863 | |
| 1910s | 1,663 | |
| 1920s | 2,072 | |
| 1930s | 1,587 | |
| 1940s | 1,332 | |
| 1950s | 1,439 | |
| 1960s | 864 | |
| 1970s | 426 | |
| 1980s | 265 | |
| 1990s | 156 | |
| 2000s | 124 | |
| 2010s | 119 | |
| 2020s | 69 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Leta was the 435th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Leta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leathapeak 1916
- Annispeak 1920
- Elvapeak 1918
- Oleviapeak 1921
- Pansypeak 1916
- Lethapeak 1918
- Easterpeak 1925
- Loviepeak 1919
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.