Letitia

Letitia /lɪˈtɪʃə, lɪˈtiːʃə/ is a feminine given name, of latin origin meaning "joy, gladness". The name Letitia has many variants, including but not limited to: Leatitia (Latin), Laeta (Latin), Latizia (Italy), Leticia (spanish), Letisya (Turkish) and Letisha (American). The name Letitia first appeared in the form Lettice in medieval England and is closely associated with the Roman goddess Leatitia of gaiety, symbolic of happiness, prosperity and abundance. Letitia along with its variant Letizia, is listed as one of the top 100 royal names for girls in honor of Queen Letizia of Spain. Letitia is most commonly pronounced as Le-Tee-Sha, Le-Ti-Sha, Le-Tah, Le-Ti-Ci-A or Le-Ti-Zia.

Variants

• Letícia (Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian)
• Letitia (English) Spanish
• Latizia (Italian)
• Leata (English) Spanish
• Lätitia (German)
• Lätitzia (German)
• Tizia (German)
• Lätizia (German)
• Leattah (Jamaican) Spanish
• Laetitia (French, Late Latin, German)
• Letizia (Italian, Corsican)
• Letīcija (Latvian)
• Letiția (Romanian, Moldovan)
• Летиция (Russian)
• Летисия (Russian)
• Leticia (Spanish)
• Lelê (Portuguese)
• Leca (Portuguese)
• Leleca (Portuguese)
• Tica (Portuguese)
• Letycja (Polish)
• Leitis (Scottish)
• Ledicia (Scottish)
• Leti (Spanish)
• Letisya (Turkish)
• Lezinha (Portuguese)

People

• Queen Letizia of Spain (born 1972), Queen of Spain
• Letitia Baldrige (1926–2012), American etiquette expert
• Laetitia Casta (born 1978), French model and actress
• Letitia Chitty (1897–1982), English aeronautical engineer
• Letitia Christian Tyler (1790–1842), First Lady of the United States
• Letitia Dean (born 1967), English actress
• Letitia Dunbar-Harrison (born 1906), Irish librarian
• Letitia Gwynne (born 1962), Northern Irish television journalist
• Letitia James (born 1958), American politician
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838), English poet
• Letitia MacTavish Hargrave (1813–1854), Canadian fur trader
• Letitia Stevenson (19th century), Second Lady of the United States
• Letitia Vriesde (born 1964), Surinamese athlete
• Letitia Wright (born 1993), Guyanese-English actress
• Letitia Youmans (1827–1896), Canadian temperance reformer

Fictional characters

• Letitia Lerner
• Leta Lestrange- Movie: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Letitia, character in "Sadie Rocks: Happiness and All That Stuff" by Karen McCombie
• Jane Letitia Penderwick, character in the Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall
• Letitia Ketterley "Aunt Letty," character in the Chronicles of Narnia series
• "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter," DC Comics story by Kyle Baker
• Letitia Prism, a character in Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest"
• Letitia, Missy's mother in the film "Surviving Christmas"
• Letitia M. Slighcarp, recurring villain in Joan Aiken's "Wolves Chronicles" books

Ships

• SS Letitia, ocean liner, later an armed merchant cruiser, troopship and hospital ship

Other

• a mullein (plants in the genus Verbascum) cultivar