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Latishia vs Latoya

American parents have registered 45,748 Latoyas since 1880, against 645 Latishias. Latoya is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Latishia against Latoya, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Latishia Latoya

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 63 years in which either name was published, Latoya for 61 years and Latishia for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Latishia Latoya
Total US births 64545,748
Most in one year 415,069
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 62044,000
Median age today 4442
Peak year 19791984
Best rank 2,304th girls60th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,917th
First recorded 19641960
Girls / boys 645 / 045,563 / 185

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 Latishias alive today are over 44; half the Latoyas are over 42. That is 2 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: Latishia and Latoya.