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Lataya vs Latrice

American parents have registered 9,154 Latrices since 1880, against 769 Latayas. Latrice is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lataya against Latrice, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lataya Latrice

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

Latrice has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Lataya had 5 and Latrice had 6.

Side by side

  Lataya Latrice
Total US births 7699,154
Most in one year 47381
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 7508,800
Median age today 3843
Peak year 19811981
Best rank 2,158th girls516th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19711954
Girls / boys 769 / 09,137 / 17

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 Latrices alive today are over 43; half the Latayas are over 38. That is 5 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: Lataya and Latrice.