Lathan
Lathan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 66 births. Its best rank was 933rd, in 2011.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 660.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2011214 births
- Best rank
- #933in 2011
- Since 1912
- 4,237people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,237 boys have been named Lathan in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 214 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 37%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lathan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 38 | |
| 1920s | 90 | |
| 1930s | 78 | |
| 1940s | 84 | |
| 1950s | 103 | |
| 1960s | 96 | |
| 1970s | 133 | |
| 1980s | 193 | |
| 1990s | 360 | |
| 2000s | 1,121 | |
| 2010s | 1,558 | |
| 2020s | 383 |
In 2011, its biggest year
Lathan was the 933rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2011 were Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Lathan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maximpeak 2012
- Carstenpeak 2011
- Jacenpeak 2013
- Brisonpeak 2012
- Filippeak 2012
- Masonpeak 2011
- Kellerpeak 2012
- Brystonpeak 2012
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.