Lotoya
Lotoya was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 466 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lotoya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lotoya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,424, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1984, the peak
Lotoya peaked in 1984, when 48 girls were given it, #2,100 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #12,424 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,427 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,177 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,117 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,205 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,095 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,208 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,100 | 28.5 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,294 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,400 | 24.2 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 43 | #2,329 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,916 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,335 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,243 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,590 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,516 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,864 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,886 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,092 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,033 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lotoya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lotoya 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 Lotoya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lotoya, and how old are they?
An estimated 447 Americans named Lotoya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 41 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 257 people named Lotoya (257 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 452 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,551 babies since 1880, Lotoya is the third most given (30% 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 Lotoya
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 Lotoya and names like it
- Compare Lotoya and LotaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLotoya peaked in 1984.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lotoya since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Lotoya.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lotoya alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.