girls:
30.2k births since 1959
#808 (86th percentile)
boys:
114 births since 1974
#4472 (2nd percentile)
overall:
30.3k births since 1959
#1458 (81st percentile)
The name Latasha is the #1,458 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 30,325 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 81.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #808 (85.9% percentile) for all time with 30,211 births since 1959. For boys, it ranks #4,472 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 114 births since 1974.
Latasha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Latasha is available in 62 out of the 64 years between 1959 and 2022 (62 years for girls and 12 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Latasha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Latasha reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 82.5% percentile (ranked #138) with 1,156 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 1,156 births per million (ranked 82.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Latasha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #746) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Latasha".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Latasha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.4% confident that Latasha is pronounced as luh-TAH-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-TA-shuh, at 15.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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