# Leta (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/leta/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,944 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 11,944 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | 10,186 |
| 2011 | 13 | 8,941 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,665 |
| 2014 | 22 | 5,907 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,465 |
| 2016 | 15 | 7,823 |
| 2017 | 14 | 8,106 |
| 2018 | 13 | 8,407 |
| 2019 | 14 | 7,972 |
| 2020 | 27 | 4,833 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9,998 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,798 |
| 2023 | 13 | 8,309 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,300 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9,827 |

## People named Leta

- Leta Stetter Hollingworth, American psychologist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.