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Latasha

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Latasha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 139th, in 1981.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
19812,060 births
Best rank
#139in 1981
Since 1959
30,211people given the name
Babies named Latasha, by year of birthgirls
06251.3k1.9k2.5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

30,211 girls have been named Latasha in the United States since 1959, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 2,060 births — 0.12% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 2,060 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1980s alone account for 50%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Latasha
1950s9
1960s407
1970s10,876
1980s15,035
1990s3,304
2000s467
2010s101
2020s12

In 1981, its biggest year

Latasha was the 139th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1981 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1981.

Names that rose and fell with Latasha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.