Latara
Feminine
Latara and its neighbors take the same base with different prefixes, and the choice between them was made by ear rather than by rule. La- and Sha- and Ta- were all available, all attached to the same stock of bases, and a family picking one was choosing a rhythm; the record shows every combination, in roughly the proportions you would expect from free choice.
How old is the name Latara?
Latara first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Latara alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 1,400 people named Latara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Latara most popular?
Latara peaked in 1987, reaching #1009 nationally. See the whole 1987 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A small stock of prefixes and a small stock of bases to Latara
Our story of Latara
It is worth seeing the whole system at once rather than one name at a time. Take four prefixes and twenty bases and you have eighty names; add three endings and you have two hundred and forty; add the respellings each of those generates and the number runs into four figures. The American record for these decades looks exactly like that: a grid, filled in almost completely, with the commonest combinations carried by thousands of children and the rarest by a handful. No individual family was working from the grid, of course. Each was choosing something that sounded right, and the aggregate of thousands of independent choices produces a structure that looks designed and was not.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Neither element carries meaning. The prefix is a piece of American rhythm and the base is a syllable that resembles several real names in several languages without descending from any of them. Reference works offering an Irish or Sanskrit derivation are reading the resemblance. What can be described is the construction and the period.
How the name formed
- A small stock of prefixes and a small stock of bases
- Every combination appearing in the record
- Latara, Shatara and Tatara among them
- The whole grid receding across one generation
Pronouncing Latara
luh-TAR-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle and a broad a in it. The first syllable is reduced almost to nothing, which is what allows any of the available prefixes to be substituted without changing the rhythm.
Nicknames for Latara
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 1987154 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1009reached in 1987
- Change vs 2005
- −37.5%5 in 2013, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lataras among us
people named Latara are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Latara sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The sound is transparent and easy for speakers of almost any language.
- Tara is available inside it as a complete and internationally recognizable name.
- The rhythm is even and carries well when said in full.
- There is no meaning to give, and the honest answer describes the grid.
- Several names differ from it only in the prefix and will be confused with it.
- It is firmly of one stretch of American naming.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lataras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Latara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Latara in 2025?
- Latara is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Latara with classmates?
- Latara will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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