Leitah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Leitah

What is the meaning of the name Leitah ?

The baby name Leitah is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈleɪtə/ (LAY-tuh),/ˈliːtə/ (LEE-tuh).

Leitah is English in Origin.

Leitah is a rare modern feminine name, most plausibly a respelling of Leita/Leta that traces back to Latin Laeta and Laetitia, "joyful, glad, fertile." Through medieval Letitia/Leticia and their English short forms Leta and Letha, the root saw steady use, with Leta and Letha peaking in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The -ah ending aligns Leitah with contemporary tastes (cf. Leah, Norah), while Leitha also recalls the historic Leitha/Lajta river on the Austria-Hungary border. In Icelandic, leita means "to seek," a coincidental echo that lends the name a poetic "seeker of joy" feel.

Variant forms and cognates include Leita, Leta, Letha, Leitha, Laeta, Letta, Letitia, and Leticia; nicknames might be Lei or Leta. Some also connect the family to Greek Aletheia/Alethea ("truth"), via Aletha/Letha.

⚙ Leitah is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Leitah appears only 1 time in total — found in 1 country. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.