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Lettie

Lettie: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“joy, gladness”
Origin
English
Say it
LET-ee · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls

Diminutive of Letitia or sometimes Scarlett, Colette, or Violet. Most often it traces to Letitia, from Latin laetitia 'joy, gladness.'

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How popular is Lettie?

202485.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Lettie in 2024282

2024 rank#934 girls

Peak year1887

Total US babies since 188010,739

Lettie is rising: use over the last five years is 6.1× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Lettie

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Oliviaolive tree · English
  • Evelyndesired; little bird · English
  • Harperharp player · English
  • Violetviolet flower · English
  • Hazelhazel tree · English
  • Ellieshort form of names ending in -el or -ella · English
  • Lilylily flower · English
  • Scarlettscarlet, bright red · English

Lettie questions

What does the name Lettie mean?

Lettie means "joy, gladness". It comes from English. Diminutive of Letitia or sometimes Scarlett, Colette, or Violet. Most often it traces to Letitia, from Latin laetitia 'joy, gladness.'

Is Lettie a boy or girl name?

Lettie is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Lettie?

282 US babies were named Lettie in 2024. Its peak year was 1887.

How do you pronounce Lettie?

Lettie is usually pronounced LET-ee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.