Latanya
Latanya was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 9,873 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,150 Americans named Latanya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 46 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latanya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Latanya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Latanya is “a female given name of African-American usage.”
From La- + Tanya.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Latanya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,395, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
520 babies in 1972, the peak
Latanya peaked in 1972, when 520 girls were given it, #394 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,395 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,646 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,371 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,354 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,803 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,559 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,258 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,338 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,514 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,629 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 10 | #10,345 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,193 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,083 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,487 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,387 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,953 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,969 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,309 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,679 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,181 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,136 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,906 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,065 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,880 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 97 | #1,568 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,655 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 102 | #1,388 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 134 | #1,119 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 133 | #1,111 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 163 | #955 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 176 | #866 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 204 | #783 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 239 | #725 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 322 | #575 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 371 | #521 | 0.22 |
| 1979 | 390 | #508 | 0.24 |
| 1978 | 424 | #464 | 0.28 |
| 1977 | 429 | #460 | 0.28 |
| 1976 | 465 | #429 | 0.32 |
| 1975 | 519 | #394 | 0.36 |
| 1974 | 497 | #406 | 0.34 |
| 1973 | 491 | #406 | 0.34 |
| 1972 | 520 | #394 | 0.34 |
| 1971 | 490 | #426 | 0.29 |
| 1970 | 430 | #474 | 0.25 |
| 1969 | 349 | #524 | 0.21 |
| 1968 | 314 | #546 | 0.19 |
| 1967 | 227 | #637 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 213 | #664 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 227 | #650 | 0.13 |
| 1964 | 188 | #759 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 162 | #816 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 169 | #804 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 146 | #892 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 126 | #950 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 104 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 103 | #1,032 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 86 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 74 | #1,216 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 67 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,893 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,298 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,975 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,465 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,558 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latanya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latanya has been given almost only to girls: 23 boys in 68 years of records.
Girls and boys named Latanya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latanya, and how old are they?
9,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 9,873 Americans ever recorded as Latanya. The median Latanya alive today is 52 years old; half are between 46 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 7,290 people named Latanya (7,285 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,351 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,940 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 206 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Latanya born?
The states with the most babies named Latanya are California, Illinois and New York, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,280 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 1,035 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New York | 594 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 496 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 465 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 452 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 377 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 330 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Louisiana | 329 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 306 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Latanya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Latanya is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1947 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Latanya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,444 babies since 1880, Latanya is the second most given (24% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Latanya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Latanya and names like it
- Compare Latanya and LatonyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLatanya peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latanya since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Latanya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Latanya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.