girls:
1k births since 1971
#4697 (18th percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1971
#6720 (13th percentile)
The name Lateisha is the #6,720 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,019 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 13.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,697 (17.8% percentile) for all time with 1,019 births since 1971.
Lateisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Lateisha is available in 32 out of the 35 years between 1971 and 2005. 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.
For girls, Lateisha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #771) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lateisha".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lateisha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.4% confident that Lateisha is pronounced as luh-TEE-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-TAY-shuh, at 17.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L AH0 T IY1 SH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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