Girls' name · since 1972
Letasha
285 babies named Letasha in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #16,362 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 285
- born since 1972
- 1980s
- peak decade
Letasha is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 285 have been recorded since 1972.
Letasha has 285 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 1991.
- #16,362 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 285 born since 1972
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Letasha ranks #16,362 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 285 born since 1972, peaking in the 1980s.
- #16,362 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 285
- born since 1972
- 1980s
- peak decade
Letasha's 285 recorded births place it above 77.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Letasha's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Letasha's SSA record in two at 1982 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1973, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 1980 peak of 27, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Letasha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–1991
- Peak year (1980)
- 27
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Letasha by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (166 births, 58% of the file).
1980s was Letasha's strongest decade.
166 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Letasha births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
97 births
- 1980s
1980s
166 births
- 1990s 22
1990s
22 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 166 births (58% of all-time use).
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- Letasha's decade-level peak was the 1980s (166 total births); usage has since declined to 22 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Letasha: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~19 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, 1972–1991 (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 Letasha 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.