Latisha
Latisha was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 18,444 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,700 Americans named Latisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Latisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Latisha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Also “a female given name from Latin, variant of Letitia”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Latisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,870, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,180 babies in 1979, the peak
Latisha peaked in 1979, when 1,180 babies were given it (1,175 girls, #221 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #12,870 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,853 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,922 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,376 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,944 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,525 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,211 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,406 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,714 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,505 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,997 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,916 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,253 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,806 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,955 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,373 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,460 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,525 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,685 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,300 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,938 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,956 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,721 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,554 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,744 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,514 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 156 | #1,176 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 174 | #1,064 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 235 | #834 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 332 | #649 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 465 | #523 | 0.26 |
| 1992 | 479 | #504 | 0.26 |
| 1991 | 480 | #495 | 0.26 |
| 1990 | 495 | #492 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 600 | #413 | 0.33 |
| 1988 | 601 | #401 | 0.34 |
| 1987 | 609 | #384 | 0.35 |
| 1986 | 655 | #363 | 0.38 |
| 1985 | 756 | #316 | 0.44 |
| 1984 | 766 | #311 | 0.45 |
| 1983 | 745 | #308 | 0.45 |
| 1982 | 854 | #285 | 0.50 |
| 1981 | 964 | #256 | 0.58 |
| 1980 | 1,057 | #245 | 0.64 |
| 1979 | 1,175 | #221 | 0.73 |
| 1978 | 956 | #249 | 0.62 |
| 1977 | 936 | #268 | 0.61 |
| 1976 | 748 | #306 | 0.51 |
| 1975 | 671 | #329 | 0.46 |
| 1974 | 656 | #337 | 0.45 |
| 1973 | 512 | #397 | 0.35 |
| 1972 | 408 | #456 | 0.27 |
| 1971 | 382 | #499 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 199 | #742 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 142 | #886 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 94 | #1,105 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,589 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,540 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,764 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,388 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,451 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,834 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,918 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,480 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latisha has been given almost only to girls: 38 boys in 75 years of records.
Girls and boys named Latisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latisha, and how old are they?
17,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 18,444 Americans ever recorded as Latisha. The median Latisha alive today is 44 years old; half are between 38 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 14,578 people named Latisha (14,557 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,841 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 177 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,640 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,950 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 799 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 91 |
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 Latisha born?
The states with the most babies named Latisha are New York, Texas and California, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,838 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 1,151 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 1,096 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 1,036 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 1,034 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 754 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 736 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 680 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 627 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 584 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Latisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Latisha is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1948 it was given 2.7 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 Latisha 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, Latisha is the second most given (29% 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 Latisha
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 Latisha and names like it
- Compare Latisha and LatashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLatisha peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latisha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Latisha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Latisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Latisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.