Latonia
Latonia was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 5,120 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,750 Americans named Latonia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 48 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latonia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Latonia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Latonia is “a female given name transferred from the place name or originating as a coinage, a blend of the female name prefix La- + Tonia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Latonia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,355, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
371 babies in 1972, the peak
Latonia peaked in 1972, when 371 girls were given it, #481 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #18,355 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,010 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,628 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,917 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,629 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,577 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,823 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,686 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,554 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,522 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 12 | #7,375 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,314 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,895 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,570 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,171 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,672 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,540 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,230 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,762 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,251 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,092 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,774 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 70 | #1,597 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,362 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,451 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 106 | #1,234 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 115 | #1,169 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 185 | #842 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 188 | #800 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 192 | #785 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 233 | #660 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 253 | #624 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 270 | #585 | 0.18 |
| 1973 | 324 | #521 | 0.22 |
| 1972 | 371 | #481 | 0.24 |
| 1971 | 328 | #549 | 0.20 |
| 1970 | 302 | #583 | 0.17 |
| 1969 | 285 | #587 | 0.17 |
| 1968 | 244 | #615 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 239 | #615 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 164 | #767 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 102 | #1,040 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 98 | #1,109 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,257 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,470 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,507 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,735 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,370 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,186 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,877 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,803 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,926 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,415 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,721 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latonia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latonia has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Latonia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latonia, and how old are they?
4,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 5,120 Americans ever recorded as Latonia. The median Latonia alive today is 53 years old; half are between 48 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 3,810 people named Latonia (3,788 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,853 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 390 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 723 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 98 |
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 Latonia born?
The states with the most babies named Latonia are Illinois, Texas and North Carolina, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 461 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 383 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 256 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 234 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 228 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 222 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 221 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 211 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Mississippi | 208 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| New York | 184 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Latonia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Latonia is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1947 it was given 3.1 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 Latonia 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 40,110 babies since 1880, Latonia is the third most given (13% 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 Latonia
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 Latonia and names like it
- Compare Latonia and LatonyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLatonia peaked in 1972.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latonia since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Latonia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Latonia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Latonia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.