Latara
Latara was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 1,394 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Latara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 37 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Latara?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,103, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
154 babies in 1987, the peak
Latara peaked in 1987, when 154 girls were given it, #1,011 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,103 | 2.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,479 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,223 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,921 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,708 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,544 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,324 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,959 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,318 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,035 | 9.2 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 16 | #5,935 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,133 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,761 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,728 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,108 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,711 | 23.5 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,355 | 27.9 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,009 | 34.2 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,652 | 44.4 |
| 1987 | 154 | #1,011 | 88.6 |
| 1986 | 88 | #1,455 | 51.3 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,337 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,852 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,846 | 34.1 |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,465 | 48.4 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,511 | 48.0 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,413 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,035 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,217 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,988 | 32.0 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,151 | 27.3 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,219 | 26.1 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,877 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,661 | 18.5 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,859 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,318 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,244 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,533 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,938 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Latara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latara, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,394 Americans ever recorded as Latara. The median Latara alive today is 41 years old; half are between 37 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,108 people named Latara (1,101 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 366 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 895 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 77 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,040 babies since 1880, Latara is the second most given (23% 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 Latara
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 Latara and names like it
- Compare Latara and LatoriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLatara peaked in 1987.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latara since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Latara.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Latara alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.