Latorya
Latorya was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 532 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latorya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Latorya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,697, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1984, the peak
Latorya peaked in 1984, when 52 girls were given it, #1,977 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #14,697 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,119 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,161 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,439 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,229 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,962 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,638 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,993 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,412 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,151 | 28.5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 52 | #1,977 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,494 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,556 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,099 | 29.4 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,298 | 25.9 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,721 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,831 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,588 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,051 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,760 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latorya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latorya 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 Latorya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latorya, and how old are they?
An estimated 512 Americans named Latorya 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 382 people named Latorya (379 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 517 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
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 Latorya?
Latorya is a less common spelling of Latoria: SSA has recorded 532 Latorya and 2,702 Latoria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,161 babies since 1880, Latorya is the third most given (8.6% 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 Latorya
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 Latorya and names like it
- Compare Latorya and LatoriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLatorya peaked in 1984.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latorya since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Latorya.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Latorya alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.