Lataya — girls' name
769 babies named Lataya in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Lataya was born in this single decade.
47 babies were named Lataya in 1981 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lataya
The Social Security Administration has registered 769 babies named Lataya between 1971 and 2023, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lataya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 47 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lataya performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 273 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Lataya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Lataya in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lataya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 769 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Lataya at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lataya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1971
- Peak year (1981)
- 47
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
769 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1981 with 47 births in a single year.
Lataya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 273 births that decade — 36% of Lataya's all-time total
Lataya decade highlights
- Peak decade 273 births
- Runner-up 156 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Lataya's strongest decade
273 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Lataya by state
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.1% of nationwide
- New York 1.6% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.3% of nationwide
- Mississippi 0.8% of nationwide
- Louisiana 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.