How Many People Are Named Latasha?

29,110

people named Latasha are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 11,741 people in the US has this name

Based on 30,325 babies named Latasha in Social Security records from 1959 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,293

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#691

See the top 100

Peak Year

1980

2,069 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American
Pronunciation: lə-TASH-ə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Combination of the popular prefix La with the name TASHA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.6%
Male
0.4%

Almost all of the babies given the name Latasha (99.6%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Latasha alive today is about 43 years old, and 96% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 39 and 48 in 2025.

Under 30 1,085
3.7%
30 to 59 27,922
95.9%
60 and over 102
0.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Latasha first appears in the records in 1959 and was given most often in 1980, to 2,069 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.

Babies given the name each year, 1959 to 2022

🏆 Rank History

Latasha has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #139, in 1981.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#139 (1981)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#187 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Latasha alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Latasha were born in Illinois than in any other state: about 2,027 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Latasha was given 4.2 times as often in Mississippi, 3.1 times in District of Columbia and 2.8 times in Alabama.

Illinois 2,027
Texas 1,927
California 1,669
Georgia 1,648
Florida 1,629
Louisiana 1,494
New York 1,481
North Carolina 1,370
Ohio 1,276
Mississippi 1,213
Alabama 1,189
Michigan 1,083
Virginia 1,043
Tennessee 941
South Carolina 938
Pennsylvania 837
Missouri 667
New Jersey 613
Indiana 600
Arkansas 531
Kentucky 522
Maryland 495
District of Columbia 333
Oklahoma 320
Wisconsin 282
Connecticut 197
Arizona 139
Kansas 139
Washington 126
Massachusetts 111
West Virginia 107
Colorado 105
New Mexico 79
Minnesota 69
Nevada 63
Delaware 59
Oregon 56
Nebraska 44
Iowa 17
Hawaii 12
Utah 11
South Dakota 5
Montana 5

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