Girls' name · since 1978
Latea
Latea has 43 recorded births since 1978 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1997 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #36,727 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 43
- born since 1978
- 1990s
- peak decade
Latea is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 43 have been recorded since 1978.
Latea has 43 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 1999.
- #36,727 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 43 born since 1978
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Latea ranks #36,727 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 43 born since 1978, peaking in the 1990s.
- #36,727 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 43
- born since 1978
- 1990s
- peak decade
Latea's 43 recorded births place it above 49.03% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Latea's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Latea's SSA record in two at 1983 and the more recent half accounts for 63% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 37%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 1979, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1997 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Latea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–1999
- Peak year (1997)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 22 years of records
Latea by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (20 births, 47% of the file).
1990s was Latea's strongest decade.
20 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.
Latea births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
11 births
- 1980s
1980s
12 births
- 1990s
1990s
20 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 20 births (47% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Latea: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1978–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Latea draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.