Latisha

Where Latisha comes from

The dictionaries list Latisha as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #3,350 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #221
    1,175 babies named Latisha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1989
    Latisha Chan born
    Taiwanese tennis player
  4. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #493.
  5. 2005
    Latisha McCrudden born
    Irish activist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Letitia
Namesakes
  • Latisha Chan · Taiwanese tennis player, born 1989
  • Latisha McCrudden · Irish activist, born 2005

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.