Latima — girls' name
58 babies named Latima in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Latima was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Latima in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Latima
The Social Security Administration has registered 58 babies named Latima between 1972 and 1991, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Latima currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1991. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Latima performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 29 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Latima shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Latima in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Latima 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 58 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.
Latima at a glance
Last recorded 1991Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Latima popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1991–1972
- Peak year (1979)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 20 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1991.
58 total births across 20 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 10 births in a single year.
Latima by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 29 births that decade — 50% of Latima's all-time total
Latima decade highlights
- Peak decade 29 births
- Runner-up 15 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Latima's strongest decade
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
Latima by state
Where Latima concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 6 | 10.3% |
6 of 58 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 10.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 10.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–1991 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.