Latesha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Latesha

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,110 babies named Latesha between 1966 and 2007, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Latesha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 185 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Latesha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,315 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Latesha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 305 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Latesha in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Latesha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,110 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.