girls:
18.4k births since 1948
#1087 (81st percentile)
boys:
38 births since 1977
#4548 (1st percentile)
overall:
18.4k births since 1948
#1889 (76th percentile)
The name Latisha is the #1,889 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,443 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 75.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,087 (81.0% percentile) for all time with 18,405 births since 1948. For boys, it ranks #4,548 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1977.
Latisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Latisha is available in 75 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (75 years for girls and 6 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 Latisha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Latisha reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 72.2% percentile (ranked #219) with 682 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 682 births per million (ranked 72.2% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Latisha ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Latisha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 5 births per million (ranked 1.2% 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 "Latisha".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Latisha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.6% confident that Latisha is pronounced as luh-TEE-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-TIH-shuh, at 36.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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