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Latisha vs Latoyia

American parents have registered 18,444 Latishas since 1880, against 1,578 Latoyias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Latisha against Latoyia, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Latisha Latoyia

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

Latisha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2023. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Latisha had 745 and Latoyia had 142.

Side by side

  Latisha Latoyia
Total US births 18,4441,578
Most in one year 1,180167
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 18,0001,500
Median age today 4343
Peak year 19791981
Best rank 221st girls895th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19481969
Girls / boys 18,406 / 381,578 / 0

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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