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Latosha

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Latosha has been given to 6,442 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1979, with 482 recorded.

Babies named Latosha, 2012

1 in 732,000

Latosha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Latosha: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Latosha means

Latosha is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Latosha is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Latosha is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,442 girls were recorded with the name Latosha between 1962 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 482 in 1979; its best national rank was #430 in 1979.

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 Latosha?

Latosha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Latosha 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 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Latosha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Latoshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Latosha was born before 1980 — so the typical Latosha is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
45.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,442
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (2,911).

Is Latosha 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (482)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#430
1979

Spellings of Latosha

Latosha is not the most common spelling — Natasha is, with 34.0% against Latosha's 2.2%.

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 Latosha is used

Across 1910–2025, Latosha was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 24,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 10,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 10,000
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 10,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 11,111
  5. 5Alabama1 in 12,500
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 12,500
  7. 7Georgia1 in 12,500
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 14,286

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. Latosha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Latosha 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
#430
1979
Peak year
1979
482 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
6,442
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Latosha

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

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Names with a curve like Latosha

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

LashandaSharondaShantaLashondaShalondaJasonTanikaMandiTeraLakeshiaBrandeeTameka

Sibling names for Latosha

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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