Latesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Latesha has been given to 3,110 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1980, with 185 recorded.
Babies named Latesha, 2007
1 in 571,000
Latesha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Latesha?
Latesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 571,000
- 7 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 275,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 395,862 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Latesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 395,862 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Latesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lateshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Latesha was born before 1983 — so the typical Latesha is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 42.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 53.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,110
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (1,315).
Is Latesha 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 1980 (185)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.0% average annual change
Spellings of Latesha
Latesha is not the most common spelling — Natasha is, with 36.7% against Latesha's 1.2%.
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.
Where Latesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Latesha was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 61,955 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Virginia1 in 25,000
- 2Florida1 in 33,333
- 3Georgia1 in 33,333
- 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 5Mississippi1 in 33,333
- 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 8Alabama1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Latesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Latesha around the world
Where Latesha 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.
- England & Wales1996–2006#5,061in 2006
- Canada1994–1996#2,558in 1996
- South Australia1981–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Latesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Latesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Latesha
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Latesha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Latesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.