Girls' name · since 1970
Latissa
119 babies named Latissa in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1970. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #25,220 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 119
- born since 1970
- 1970s
- peak decade
Latissa is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 119 have been recorded since 1970.
Latissa has 119 recorded births among girls since 1970, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1970 to 1986.
- #25,220 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 119 born since 1970
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Latissa ranks #25,220 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 119 born since 1970, peaking in the 1970s.
- #25,220 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 119
- born since 1970
- 1970s
- peak decade
Latissa's 119 recorded births place it above 65.07% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Latissa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Latissa's full recorded timeline at 1977, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1976, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1970 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Latissa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1970–1986
- Peak year (1970)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Latissa by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (80 births, 67% of the file).
1970s was Latissa's strongest decade.
80 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Latissa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
80 births
- 1980s
1980s
39 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 80 births (67% of all-time use).
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- Latissa's usage has stayed within range of its 1970s decade-level peak (80 total births) through the 1980s (39) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Latissa: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1970)
Similar record span (~16 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1970–1986 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Latissa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.