Lata

Girls' name

Creeper

Lata has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1973, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Lata, 1973

1 in 603,000

Lata over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lata: meaning, origin, and history

Creeper

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lata means

Lata means “creeper”, associated with latā.

Origin, language, and formation

Lata is used in English.

Lata comes through Sanskrit लता.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Lata between 1973 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1973; its best national rank was #9,109 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lata?

Lata had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973: 1 in 603,000; 5 of 3,016,706 births
Among girls only: 1 in 292,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1973: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 418,205 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lata sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1973 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 418,205 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Latas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lata was born before 1973 — so the typical Lata is around 52 today.

Median birth year: 1973; About 52 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Lata rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1973 (5)
Years since peak: 52; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #9,109; 1973

Spellings of Lata

Lata is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 15.5% against Lata's <0.01%.

Lisa15.5%967,229
Laura12.9%801,811
Sara7.0%436,193
Ava5.5%344,097
Clara4.8%300,524
Rita4.6%284,452
Dana3.1%193,555
Tara2.8%175,812

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Lata around the world

Where Lata ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1983–2004
#700
in 2004

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lata by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,109; 1973
Peak year: 1973; 5 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 1973
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lata

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Latai Latae Jata Latyna Latric Latawn Latiea Latari Latela Latyia Latris Lativa Latay Neata Amata Latya Latrea Latracy Latatia Latoina Latorri Latreca Latoyla Latoyra

Sibling names for Lata

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Melonie Carmelita Nicola Kesha Suzanna Jenni Stephenie Nicki

For a brother

Demond Shon Erin Giuseppe Abdul Shelton Darrick Judd

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