Latricia
Feminine · “of the noble class”
Latricia and Latrice are two cuts of the same name. Both take Patricia, drop the P, and add the American prefix; one keeps the full ending and one stops at the middle. The -cia at the back is said as sha, which is one of English's less predictable rules and the reason both spellings exist.
How old is the name Latricia?
Latricia first appears in US birth records in 1933 — 92 years ago. The typical Latricia alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 5,200 people named Latricia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Latricia most popular?
Latricia peaked in 1974, reaching #616 nationally. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
From patricius to Latricia
The story of Latricia
English gives ci the sound sh before a vowel, in patricia, precious, gracious and social, and nothing in the spelling announces it. That single rule generates a great many respellings, because a family hearing a name and writing it down has no reason to reach for a c. Latricia keeps the standard spelling of that ending; Latrice cuts it off entirely; Latrisha writes it phonetically. Three solutions to one rule, all in the record, and none of them standard.
Meaningscholars disagree
of the noble class
Latin patricius describes a member of the patrician order, the families entitled to sit in the Roman Senate, and it is built on pater, father, because the order was defined by descent. Patricia is the feminine. Whether Latricia descends from it or was assembled on the same sound cannot be recovered, and a fragment does not carry a meaning across reliably — so the noble reading is available through the second half rather than guaranteed.
How the name formed
- patricius
- Patricia
- Latricia
Related forms: Patrice · Patricia
Pronouncing Latricia
luh-TRISH-uh
luh-TRISH-uh, three syllables, stress in the middle, the ci said as sh. A reader who sounds the c produces luh-TRIS-ee-uh, which is not the name and which the spelling gives no warning about.
Nicknames for Latricia
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
- 1933
- Most girls named
- 1974253 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #616reached in 1974
- Change vs 2012
- 0.0%5 in 2020, 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.
Latricia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Patrice in French — related form
- Patricia in Spanish — related form
Latricias among us
people named Latricia 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
Latricia 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
- Tricia and Trish are both complete short forms with a long English history.
- The Latin behind the second half is documented and concrete.
- Three syllables with a clear middle stress, which balances a short surname.
- Latrisha, Latricia and Latrecia are all in use, so the ending gets dictated every time.
- The ci rule catches readers who have not met it, so the name is occasionally mispronounced.
- The prefix places the name in a specific American tradition and period.
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- How many Latricias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,200 people named Latricia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Latricia in 2025?
- Latricia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Latricia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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