Letty

girls’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Letty is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 130 births. Its best rank was 819th, in 1892.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1300.01% of girls
Peak year: 2016163 births
Best rank: #819in 1892
Since 1880: 4,454people given the name

Babies named Letty, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

4,454 girls have been named Letty in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 163 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2016, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 2010s alone account for 22%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Letty
1880s	28
1890s	80
1900s	108
1910s	261
1920s	474
1930s	395
1940s	359
1950s	318
1960s	350
1970s	169
1980s	94
1990s	112
2000s	67
2010s	984
2020s	655

In 2016, its biggest year

Letty was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Letty

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Lettie10,739 ever

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.