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Latham vs Latrice

American parents have registered 9,154 Latrices since 1880, against 594 Lathams. But in 2025 it was Latham that was commoner, 13 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Latham against Latrice, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Latham Latrice

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

Of the 82 years in which either name was published, Latrice for 57 years and Latham for 25 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Latham Latrice
Total US births 5949,154
Most in one year 29381
Babies in 2025 135
Estimated living today 5208,800
Median age today 1443
Peak year 20151981
Best rank 3,684th boys516th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446th14,942nd
First recorded 19171954
Girls / boys 0 / 5949,137 / 17

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 Latrices alive today are over 43; half the Lathams are over 14. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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