Latoia
Latoia was last recorded in 1993, when 8 babies were given it; 288 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latoia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Latoia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,118, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1981, the peak
Latoia peaked in 1981, when 32 girls were given it, #2,819 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 8 | #10,118 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,501 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,320 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,228 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,765 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,894 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,778 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,613 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,209 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,191 | 16.0 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 24 | #3,388 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,482 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,819 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,635 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,265 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,382 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,840 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,053 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,580 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,239 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latoia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latoia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Latoia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latoia, and how old are they?
An estimated 277 Americans named Latoia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 40 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 261 people named Latoia (257 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 280 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Latoia?
Latoia is a less common spelling of Latoya: SSA has recorded 288 Latoia and 45,748 Latoya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,446 babies since 1880, Latoia is the seventh most given (<1% 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 Latoia
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 Latoia and names like it
- Compare Latoia and LatoyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLatoia peaked in 1981.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latoia since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Latoia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Latoia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.