Latrese
Feminine
Latrese ends in a letter pair that English uses for two completely unrelated jobs, and only one of them is the job being done here. The other one makes nationalities, which is why the ending looks more official than it is.
How old is the name Latrese?
Latrese first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Latrese alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 800 people named Latrese are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Latrese most popular?
Latrese peaked in 1978, reaching #2125 nationally. See the whole 1978 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Latrese
There are two endings spelled ese in English and they have nothing to do with each other. One comes from Latin ensis, meaning belonging to a place, and it is the ending that makes Chinese, Portuguese, Maltese, Milanese and Japanese. The other is simply the French feminine ending, the one in Therese and Denise, arrived at by a different route entirely and carrying no sense of place at all. Latrese ends in the second kind, which is worth saying plainly, because the first kind is the one most readers have met more often and the eye does not distinguish them. The name is not claiming to be from anywhere. It is using an ending that French uses for women's names and that English has never had a rule for.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source has been documented. The back of the name may be Therese, whose own origin is argued over, or it may be nothing more than a pleasant ending. The front attaches freely to almost anything and carries no meaning of its own.
Pronouncing Latrese
luh-TREES
Three syllables with the weight on the last. The final e is silent and the s is said as a z.
Nicknames for Latrese
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
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 197844 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2125reached in 1978
- Change vs 2000
- +40.0%7 in 2004, from 5
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.
Latreses among us
people named Latrese 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
Latrese 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 stress is unmistakable, which means almost nobody mispronounces it on first sight.
- It is distinctive without containing a single difficult sound.
- Trese works as a short form and is not shared with any other common name.
- It will be written Latrice and Letrese by people working from sound alone, and Latrice is the commoner spelling.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has no answer to give.
- It belongs audibly to one stretch of American naming, which places it in time for listeners of a certain age.
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- How many Latreses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Latrese are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Latrese in 2025?
- Latrese is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Latrese will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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