Latasha
Latasha was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 30,325 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,100 Americans named Latasha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 40 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latasha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Latasha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Latasha is “a female given name of African-American usage”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Latasha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,648, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
2,069 babies in 1980, the peak
Latasha peaked in 1980, when 2,069 babies were given it (2,059 girls, #141 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,648 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,883 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,043 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,130 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,168 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,856 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,883 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,531 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,900 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,107 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 26 | #5,338 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,445 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,663 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,823 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,485 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,318 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,200 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,820 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,726 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,313 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 73 | #2,180 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,725 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,475 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 134 | #1,299 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 175 | #1,058 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 245 | #810 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 294 | #709 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 390 | #600 | 0.22 |
| 1992 | 533 | #462 | 0.29 |
| 1991 | 583 | #436 | 0.31 |
| 1990 | 741 | #359 | 0.39 |
| 1989 | 954 | #283 | 0.52 |
| 1988 | 1,086 | #244 | 0.61 |
| 1987 | 1,202 | #223 | 0.69 |
| 1986 | 1,203 | #220 | 0.70 |
| 1985 | 1,323 | #200 | 0.77 |
| 1984 | 1,560 | #175 | 0.93 |
| 1983 | 1,665 | #166 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 1,923 | #153 | 1.1 |
| 1981 | 2,060 | #139 | 1.2 |
| 1980 | 2,059 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 1979 | 1,688 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 1,395 | #185 | 0.91 |
| 1977 | 1,597 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 1,384 | #185 | 0.94 |
| 1975 | 1,243 | #197 | 0.85 |
| 1974 | 1,196 | #213 | 0.81 |
| 1973 | 982 | #256 | 0.67 |
| 1972 | 715 | #327 | 0.47 |
| 1971 | 469 | #444 | 0.28 |
| 1970 | 208 | #722 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 149 | #852 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,526 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,607 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,136 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,775 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,455 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,403 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,533 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,476 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latasha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latasha has been given almost only to girls: 114 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Latasha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latasha, and how old are they?
29,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 30,325 Americans ever recorded as Latasha. The median Latasha alive today is 45 years old; half are between 40 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 22,706 people named Latasha (22,672 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 29,380 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 74 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 847 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 66 |
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).
Where are babies named Latasha born?
The states with the most babies named Latasha are Illinois, Texas and California, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 2,120 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 2,008 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 1,749 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 1,719 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Florida | 1,702 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 1,559 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| New York | 1,545 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 1,427 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 1,327 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Mississippi | 1,263 | not ranked | 3.5× |
Where Latasha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Latasha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1959 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Latasha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 62,877 babies since 1880, Latasha is the most given (48% 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 Latasha
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 Latasha and names like it
- Compare Latasha and LatishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLatasha peaked in 1980.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latasha since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Latasha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Latasha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.