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Latanya vs Latrell

American parents have registered 9,873 Latanyas since 1880, against 4,380 Latrells. But in 2025 it was Latrell that was commoner, 31 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Latanya against Latrell, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Latanya Latrell

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 81 years in which either name was published, Latanya for 46 years and Latrell for 35 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Latanya Latrell
Total US births 9,8734,380
Most in one year 520278
Babies in 2025 under 531
Estimated living today 9,2004,300
Median age today 5123
Peak year 19721999
Best rank 394th girls636th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,583rd
First recorded 19471940
Girls / boys 9,850 / 23541 / 3,839

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Latanyas alive today are over 51; half the Latrells are over 23. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Latanya Latrell
England and Wales 1365

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Latanya and Latrell.