MEANING & HISTORY
What does Letlet mean?
Letlet is explicitly recorded as a reduplication of Let, short for Leticia. Leticia belongs to the Latin Letitia joy-name family.
The repetition belongs to later Filipino familiar naming rather than doubling an ancient Latin word. Its exact form should remain distinct from unrelated names beginning with Let.
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Pronunciation & syllables
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Tagalog
- /ˈletlet/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈlɛt̪.l̪ɛt̪̚]Standard-Tagalog
Let · let2 source divisions
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Reduplication of Let, short for Leticia
a diminutive of the female given name Leticia
Wiktionary: Letlet (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Letlet in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Letlet
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Lenlen♀Repeated familiar form of Belen, Lynette, or Belinda
- Balet♀Familiar form of Valeriana or Valentina
- Lee♂♀Meadow; in the English surname-derived route
- Leila♀Night
- Lelia·Italian form of the Roman name Laelia
- Lemuel·For God or devoted to God
- Leonel·Spanish and Portuguese Lionel; little lion
- Leslie♀From the Scottish place name Leslie
What rhymes with Letlet?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Explore Letlet further
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- Wiktionary contributors — Letlet (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Behind the Name — Leticia (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Letitia (opens in a new tab)
Actually consulted explicitly linked base-name account, relevant formation or root sense; does not establish individual naming intention.