first name
LATISHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,578 people named Latisha, 70% reported their origin as Black, 17.4% as White and 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Latisha peaked in 1979, when 1,180 babies got the name.
At least 18,444 babies have been given the name since 1948. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Latisha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #612. The largest share of babies named Latisha, 50%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Latisha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Latisha has been most common in District of Columbia (3.3×), North Carolina (2.2×), and Mississippi (2×), and least common in Minnesota (0.15×).
16,463 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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