Lateisha
Lateisha was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 1,019 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lateisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lateisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lateisha is “Alternative form of Latisha (“African-American female given name”).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lateisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,576, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1993, the peak
Lateisha peaked in 1993, when 61 girls were given it, #2,181 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #15,576 | 3.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,830 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,365 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,998 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,673 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,092 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,667 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,930 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,656 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,181 | 33.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 59 | #2,256 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,810 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,356 | 27.9 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,205 | 29.8 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,674 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,216 | 28.2 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,211 | 27.4 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,117 | 29.1 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,276 | 25.5 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,175 | 26.9 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,934 | 32.5 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,391 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,169 | 28.3 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,116 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,333 | 25.5 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,810 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,576 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,845 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,596 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,557 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,655 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,326 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lateisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lateisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lateisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lateisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 985 Americans named Lateisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 35 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 751 people named Lateisha (749 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 994 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
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 61,113 babies since 1880, Lateisha is the fifth most given (1.7% 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 Lateisha
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 Lateisha and names like it
- Compare Lateisha and LatashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLateisha peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lateisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Lateisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lateisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.