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My grandmother is Letitia (but she's always been known as Letty). She hates her name, but we (my cousins, sister and me) love her name. So much that currently my sister and two of my cousins (one of whom is named after our grandmother) are in competition to have a little girl first so they can call her Letitia!!

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Needless to say, my grandmother does not know, because she doubtless would not approve!!

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My mother had a much older cousin named Letitia Muriel but always known as Muriel. I always thought she'd have been better off with Letitia; but apparently only one person - a manager she worked for - ever used it and shortened it pleasantly to Tish.

I love the French and Spanish and Italian variants Laetitia, Leticia, and Letizia, where there's more of a separate sound between the last vowels, like tee-cee-ah for Leticia.

It's not a bad name at all. I think it looks nicer than it sounds, but it's still pretty. I have known two leh-TEE-tzee-uh's. I guess that's more of a Spanish form, perhaps.

Very, very pretty. Letitia / Laetitia is delicate and sweet. I wish I could get into the variant Lettice because it *looks* so nice on paper. But I keep thinking of lettuce. :-P Happily, Letitia / Laetitia looks and sounds lovely.

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I pronounce Letitia / Laetitia the same way she does, by the way. "leh-TISH-uh."

This message was edited 5/8/2012, 1:09 PM