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Lathan

#2,700 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lathan has been given to 4,289 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,700 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 214 recorded.

Babies named Lathan, 2025

1 in 69,100

Lathan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lathan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lathan means

Lathan is a given name.

The naming story behind Lathan

Wikidata records Lathan as a given name. The entity identifier is Q104476596, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,289 boys were recorded with the name Lathan between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 214 in 2011; its best national rank was #933 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,701 in 2020 to #2,700 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,151 in 2015 to #2,700 in 2025.

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.

How common is Lathan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 35,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,700
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lathan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lathan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lathans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lathan was born before 2009 — so the typical Lathan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,999
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (1,558).

Is Lathan 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
−498
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−999
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,549
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.4%
Peak was 2011 (214)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#933
2011

Spellings of Lathan

Lathan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 51.9% against Lathan's 0.38%.

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 Lathan is used

Across 2016–2025, Lathan was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 21,416 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 4,762
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 5,556
  3. 3Alabama1 in 6,667
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 7,692
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 9,091
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 10,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 11,111
  8. 8Texas1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Lathan around the world

Where Lathan 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2019
    #2,293
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1989–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Lathan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,700
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 999
Best rank ever
#933
2011
Peak year
2011
214 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,289
Count in 2025
48

Names similar to Lathan

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

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Names with a curve like Lathan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lathan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lathan

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

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