Lathan
Lathan was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,700 among boys’ names; 4,289 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,920 Americans named Lathan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lathan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lathan?
#2,700 among boys’ names, 2025
Lathan fell from #1,151 in 2015 to #2,700 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 85.6 to 28.1 per million.
214 babies in 2011, the peak
Lathan peaked in 2011, when 214 boys were given it, #933 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,700 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,202 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,304 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 83 | #1,898 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 81 | #1,896 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 92 | #1,701 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 91 | #1,732 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 129 | #1,373 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,418 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 172 | #1,127 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 164 | #1,151 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,085 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 128 | #1,339 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 156 | #1,171 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 214 | #933 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 203 | #973 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 174 | #1,071 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,270 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 135 | #1,295 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 114 | #1,398 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 111 | #1,357 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,349 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,260 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,389 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 65 | #1,752 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 66 | #1,717 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,813 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 50 | #1,870 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,204 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,530 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,371 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,544 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,499 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,786 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,324 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,032 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,024 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,026 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,766 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,385 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,298 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,185 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,725 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,314 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,022 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,767 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,412 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,928 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,455 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,787 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,419 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,893 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,492 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,309 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,131 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,329 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,007 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,462 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,075 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,535 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,387 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,314 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,883 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,997 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,825 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,253 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,541 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,592 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,190 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,873 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,237 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,780 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,551 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,316 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,655 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,414 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,660 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,418 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,721 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,590 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,257 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,241 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,239 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lathan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lathan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lathan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lathan, and how old are they?
3,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 4,289 Americans ever recorded as Lathan. The median Lathan alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,090 people named Lathan (39 women and girls, 3,051 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,576 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 121 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 181 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 369 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,820 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,410 |
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 Lathan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,798 | 0.9× |
Where Lathan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lathan is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1912 it was given 2.3 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 boys’ 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 Lathan 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 5,418 babies since 1880, Lathan is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 72 babies (67%), again the most given.
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 Lathan
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 Lathan and names like it
- Compare Lathan and LathenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLathan peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lathan since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Lathan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lathan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.