Latesha
Latesha was last recorded in 2007, when 7 babies were given it; 3,110 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,990 Americans named Latesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 36 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Latesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,780, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
185 babies in 1980, the peak
Latesha peaked in 1980, when 185 girls were given it, #843 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #14,780 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,830 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,226 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,916 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,197 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,488 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,237 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,339 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,978 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,953 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 46 | #2,696 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,198 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,814 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 100 | #1,558 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,385 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 125 | #1,322 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 132 | #1,246 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 125 | #1,259 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,431 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,440 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,228 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 140 | #1,058 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 131 | #1,070 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 121 | #1,117 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 156 | #953 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 157 | #946 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 185 | #843 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 142 | #1,009 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 133 | #1,028 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 159 | #896 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 107 | #1,118 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 99 | #1,169 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,128 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,599 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,494 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,195 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,377 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,115 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Latesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latesha, and how old are they?
2,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,110 Americans ever recorded as Latesha. The median Latesha alive today is 43 years old; half are between 36 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 2,361 people named Latesha (2,358 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,023 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 1,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 167 |
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 Latesha born?
The states with the most babies named Latesha are New York, Illinois and Florida, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 305 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 190 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 164 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 155 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 143 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 135 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 133 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 111 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 99 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 79 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Latesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Latesha is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1966 it was given 1.9 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 Latesha 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, Latesha is the fourth most given (4.9% 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 Latesha
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 Latesha and names like it
- Compare Latesha and LatashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLatesha peaked in 1980.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Latesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Latesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.