Humanverse

Latanya vs Lattie

American parents have registered 9,873 Latanyas since 1880, against 529 Latties. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Latanya Lattie

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 110 years in which either name was published, Latanya for 67 years and Lattie for 43 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Latanya Lattie
Total US births 9,873529
Most in one year 52025
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9,20060
Median age today 5176
Peak year 19721919
Best rank 394th girls1,855th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19471889
Girls / boys 9,850 / 23393 / 136

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 Latties alive today are over 76; half the Latanyas are over 51. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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