Letha
Letha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 231st, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918473 births
- Best rank
- #231in 1903
- Since 1880
- 19,137people given the name
The story in the numbers
19,137 girls have been named Letha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 473 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 473 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 88 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Letha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 433 | |
| 1890s | 1,150 | |
| 1900s | 1,721 | |
| 1910s | 3,610 | |
| 1920s | 3,767 | |
| 1930s | 2,344 | |
| 1940s | 1,740 | |
| 1950s | 1,662 | |
| 1960s | 1,511 | |
| 1970s | 671 | |
| 1980s | 300 | |
| 1990s | 126 | |
| 2000s | 46 | |
| 2010s | 51 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Letha was the 293rd 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 Letha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leathapeak 1916
- Tressiepeak 1921
- Elvapeak 1918
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Eulapeak 1919
- Elmapeak 1918
- Cecilepeak 1918
- Henrettapeak 1916
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.