Latia
Feminine
The back of Latia is a Spanish word for an aunt. That is almost certainly a coincidence — the name was assembled from an American front syllable and a familiar ending — but the coincidence is exact, and Spanish speakers hear it immediately.
How old is the name Latia?
Latia first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Latia alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 2,800 people named Latia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Latia most popular?
Latia peaked in 1984, reaching #1021 nationally. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Latia
American naming built a large family on a small set of endings, and this is among the shortest of them: two syllables in speech, three on the page, with the stress in the middle. What makes it unusual is how little there is to it. Longer members of the family — Latasha, Latisha, Latoya — carry enough material to look constructed; this one is short enough to pass as a name from almost anywhere, and it turns up in the record alongside Latoya and Latonya with the same front and a much lighter back.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The compound has no meaning. The syllable at the end is a real Spanish word, but a built name does not inherit the sense of a word it happens to contain.
Pronouncing Latia
luh-TEE-uh
Three syllables on the page and often two in speech, with the weight in the middle. Some families use LAY-shuh, compressing it entirely.
Nicknames for Latia
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
- 1987144 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1021reached in 1984
- Change vs 2013
- −44.4%5 in 2018, from 9
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.
Latias among us
people named Latia 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
Latia 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
- It is short, easy to say and spelled as it sounds.
- Tia works as a short form and stands alone as a name in more than one language.
- It sits comfortably in front of almost any surname.
- The syllable count is genuinely unsettled, so the name is said two ways.
- There is no inherited meaning to pass on.
- Latia, Letia and Laticia are near neighbors and will be confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Latias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,800 people named Latia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Latia in 2025?
- Latia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Latia with classmates?
- Latia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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