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Latanya vs Latroy

American parents have registered 9,873 Latanyas since 1880, against 865 Latroys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Latanya Latroy

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 75 years in which either name was published, Latanya for 59 years and Latroy for 16 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Latanya Latroy
Total US births 9,873865
Most in one year 52048
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9,200820
Median age today 5139
Peak year 19721977
Best rank 394th girls1,289th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19471966
Girls / boys 9,850 / 230 / 865

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 Latroys are over 39. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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