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Latonya vs Latrice

American parents have registered 21,824 Latonyas since 1880, against 9,154 Latrices. But in 2025 it was Latrice that was commoner, 5 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Latonya against Latrice, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Latonya 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

Of the 73 years in which either name was published, Latonya for 40 years and Latrice for 33 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Latonya Latrice
Total US births 21,8249,154
Most in one year 1,296381
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 21,0008,800
Median age today 4943
Peak year 19741981
Best rank 197th girls516th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19511954
Girls / boys 21,757 / 679,137 / 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 Latonyas alive today are over 49; half the Latrices are over 43. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Latonya and Latrice.