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Lateia
How to Pronounce Lateia
Pronounced luh-TAY-ah /ləˈteɪ.ə/Medium
Meaning: Lateia has no fixed traditional root; it reads as a coined American name built from the widely used La- prefix (as in Latoya, Latisha) with a -teia/-tia ending, a naming pattern that flourished especially in Black American families beginning in the 1960s and 1970s.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Lateia has no established root in an older naming tradition; it is best read as a La- prefixed coinage, part of a wave of freshly built names like Latoya and Latisha that flourished especially among Black American families from the 1960s onward.
Lateia was never common, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak around 1981, and it faded by the mid-1990s. A girl named Lateia then would be in her forties today.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Lateia mean?
It has no fixed traditional root; it is a coined American name built from the La- prefix, like Latoya and Latisha.
How do you pronounce Lateia?
It is said luh-TAY-ah /ləˈteɪ.ə/, three syllables with the stress in the middle.
Is Lateia a boy or girl name?
Lateia is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Lateia?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the early nineteen-eighties.