Latasha
Feminine · “birthday”
Latasha is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 30,211 girls against 114 boys since 1880.
Latasha joins an American prefix to a Russian pet form. La- is the productive element of a whole generation of coined names; Tasha is the tail of Natasha, and behind that is the Latin word for a birthday.
How old is the name Latasha?
Latasha first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Latasha alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 29,000 people named Latasha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Latasha most popular?
Latasha peaked in 1981, reaching #139 nationally. See the whole 1981 chart.
Where it comes from
From natalis to Latasha
The story of Latasha
From the late 1960s, Black American families coined names in large and well-documented numbers, using a small set of prefixes — La-, Sha-, Ta-, De- — attached to existing names and sounds. Natasha had entered English use through Russian literature and was fashionable in exactly those decades, which made it an obvious stem. Latasha rose through the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s, alongside Latoya, Latonya and Latisha.
Meaningscholars disagree
birthday, of the Lord's birth
Read through its second element, the name reaches Natalia and so the Latin natalis dies, 'birthday' — which in Christian Latin meant Christmas specifically. The La- prefix carries no meaning of its own; it is a naming marker rather than a word, so the reading depends entirely on treating Tasha as the stem.
How the name formed
- natalis
- Natalia
- Natasha
- Latasha
Related forms: LaTasha · Наташа · Letasha
Pronouncing Latasha
luh-TAH-shuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some families capitalize the T — LaTasha — which marks the prefix on the page without changing the sound.
Nicknames for Latasha
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
- 1959
- Most girls named
- 19812,060 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #139reached in 1981
- Change vs 2020
- −28.6%5 in 2022, from 7
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.
Latasha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- LaTasha in English — spelling variant
- Наташа in Russian — related form
- Letasha in English — spelling variant
Latashas among us
people named Latasha 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
Latasha has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It has a real stem with a documented meaning, which many coined names of its generation do not.
- Three syllables with a strong middle, a rhythm that carries well across a room.
- Tasha and Natasha are both available as shorter and longer forms.
- The internal capital is a genuine choice — LaTasha and Latasha are both standard.
- The name is closely associated with the 1980s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Latashas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 29,000 people named Latasha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Latasha in 2025?
- Latasha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Latasha with classmates?
- Latasha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with L, all years combined.
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