Latoya
Latoya was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,482 among girls’ names; 45,748 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 44,000 Americans named Latoya 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.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latoya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Latoya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Latoya is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “a Spanish pet form of Victoria” (Toya).
Possibly La- + Toya (“a Spanish pet form of Victoria”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Latoya?
#11,482 among girls’ names, 2025
Latoya fell from #6,147 in 2015 to #11,482 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 5.0 per million.
5,069 babies in 1984, the peak
Latoya peaked in 1984, when 5,069 babies were given it (5,051 girls, #60 among girls’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,482 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,700 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,856 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,993 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,412 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,551 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,964 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,183 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,667 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,147 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 26 | #5,238 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,145 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,912 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,992 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,495 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,240 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,594 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,152 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,037 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,104 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,514 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,391 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,594 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,445 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,294 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,906 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,964 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,481 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 135 | #1,280 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,079 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 220 | #882 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 377 | #609 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 580 | #434 | 0.31 |
| 1991 | 810 | #328 | 0.43 |
| 1990 | 1,117 | #254 | 0.59 |
| 1989 | 1,463 | #190 | 0.79 |
| 1988 | 1,810 | #157 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 2,151 | #128 | 1.2 |
| 1986 | 2,537 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 3,402 | #81 | 2.0 |
| 1984 | 5,051 | #60 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 3,150 | #90 | 1.9 |
| 1982 | 3,201 | #91 | 1.9 |
| 1981 | 4,266 | #69 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 2,506 | #123 | 1.5 |
| 1979 | 1,880 | #148 | 1.2 |
| 1978 | 2,040 | #135 | 1.3 |
| 1977 | 2,321 | #125 | 1.5 |
| 1976 | 2,052 | #135 | 1.4 |
| 1975 | 1,202 | #205 | 0.82 |
| 1974 | 958 | #263 | 0.65 |
| 1973 | 488 | #407 | 0.33 |
| 1972 | 296 | #560 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 145 | #906 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 77 | #1,363 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,061 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,956 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,469 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,760 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,237 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,047 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latoya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latoya has been given almost only to girls: 185 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Latoya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latoya, and how old are they?
44,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 45,748 Americans ever recorded as Latoya. The median Latoya alive today is 43 years old; half are between 40 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 37,472 people named Latoya (37,417 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 44,402 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 896 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 184 |
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 Latoya born?
The states with the most babies named Latoya are New York, Florida and Illinois, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 4,025 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 3,193 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 3,114 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 2,854 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 2,584 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 2,293 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 2,258 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| California | 2,222 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Mississippi | 1,889 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| South Carolina | 1,851 | not ranked | 2.9× |
Where Latoya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Latoya is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1960 it was given 3.5 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 Latoya 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 51,734 babies since 1880, Latoya is the most given (88% 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 Latoya
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 Latoya and names like it
- Compare Latoya and LatiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLatoya peaked in 1984.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latoya since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Latoya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Latoya.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Latoya alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.