Meaning of the nameLetícia

Female
Latin origin
Le-tí-ci-a

Letícia is a female name of Latin origin, from laetitia, meaning 'joy'.

Meaning

“joy”

Source: Wiktionary: Letícia · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Letícia · Behind the Name: Letitia

People (2022): 487,449
Rank in Brazil: #45
Median age: 20 years
2010 Census: 435,628; people

Letícia in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Letícia, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2000s (188,283 people).

485,276 women 2,173 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Letícia is most common

States with the highest share of people named Letícia in the population, in the 2022 Census.

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	130,927	0.295%
Minas Gerais	53,225	0.259%
Rio de Janeiro	44,633	0.278%
Paraná	30,602	0.267%
Bahia	25,663	0.182%
Rio Grande do Sul	24,284	0.223%
Santa Catarina	21,222	0.279%
Pernambuco	19,633	0.217%
Goiás	16,222	0.230%
Ceará	15,731	0.179%
Pará	13,743	0.169%
Maranhão	10,638	0.157%
Distrito Federal	9,215	0.327%
Espírito Santo	8,833	0.230%
Amazonas	7,741	0.196%
Mato Grosso	7,584	0.207%
Paraíba	7,565	0.190%
Rio Grande do Norte	6,936	0.210%
Mato Grosso do Sul	6,654	0.241%
Alagoas	6,010	0.192%
Piauí	5,111	0.156%
Sergipe	4,856	0.220%
Rondônia	3,754	0.237%
Tocantins	2,769	0.183%
Acre	1,537	0.185%
Amapá	1,251	0.171%
Roraima	1,110	0.174%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Letícia

The name comes from Latin laetitia, which Wiktionary translates as 'great joy; pleasure' and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado (1981), as 'joy'. Behind the Name gives the Latin name Laetitia the sense of 'joy, happiness' and lists Letícia as the Portuguese form. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 487,449 people named Letícia, with a median age of 20. Lethicia is among the spelling variants listed by the dictionary.

It is the traditional spelling, with an accent on the í, and the most recorded in the group.

Other spellings of Letícia

Spelling	People (2022)
Letícia	487,449
Lethícia	2,510

Sources

Wiktionary: Letícia · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Letícia · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning
Behind the Name: Letitia · behindthename.com · meaning

Questions about the name Letícia

What does the name Letícia mean?

Letícia means “joy”, according to Wiktionary and Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil.

How many people are named Letícia in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 487,449 people with the first name Letícia, which ranks it number 45 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

Is Letícia a boy's or a girl's name?

Letícia is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 485,276 women and 2,173 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Letícia?

Letícia is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Letícia most common?

Proportionally, in Distrito Federal: 0.327% of the state's population is named Letícia (9,215 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Letícia?

Lethícia. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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