Latania
Latania was last recorded in 1995, when 7 babies were given it; 499 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Latania?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,190, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1976, the peak
Latania peaked in 1976, when 39 girls were given it, #2,191 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | #11,190 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,234 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,323 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,071 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,590 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,886 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,709 | 7.1 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,737 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,250 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,399 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 28 | #3,038 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,703 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,690 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,191 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,008 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,368 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,479 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,942 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,108 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,896 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,674 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,826 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,672 | 13.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,114 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,480 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,228 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,719 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,402 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,713 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,864 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,768 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Latania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latania, and how old are they?
An estimated 464 Americans named Latania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 47 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 479 people named Latania (473 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 474 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Latania?
Latania is a less common spelling of Latanya: SSA has recorded 499 Latania and 9,873 Latanya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,444 babies since 1880, Latania is the sixth most given (1.2% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Latania
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Latania and names like it
- Compare Latania and LatanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLatania peaked in 1976.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latania since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Latania.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Latania alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.