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Latasha vs Latoshia

American parents have registered 30,325 Latashas since 1880, against 1,057 Latoshias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Latasha against Latoshia, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Latasha Latoshia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Latasha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1959 to 2022. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1965, when Latasha had 31 and Latoshia had 5.

Side by side

  Latasha Latoshia
Total US births 30,3251,057
Most in one year 2,06990
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 29,0001,000
Median age today 4446
Peak year 19811978
Best rank 139th girls1,332nd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19591965
Girls / boys 30,211 / 1141,057 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Latoshias alive today are over 46; half the Latashas are over 44. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Latasha and Latoshia.