first name
LATOSHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,533 people named Latosha, 80% reported their origin as Black, 13.5% as White and 4.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Latosha peaked in 1979, when 482 babies got the name.
At least 6,442 babies have been given the name since 1962. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Latosha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,052. The largest share of babies named Latosha, 53.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Latosha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Latosha has been most common in South Carolina (2.9×), Mississippi (2.9×), and Louisiana (2.9×), and least common in New York (0.34×).
5,344 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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