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Latonya vs Lattie

American parents have registered 21,824 Latonyas since 1880, against 529 Latties. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Latonya 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 115 years in which either name was published, Latonya for 69 years and Lattie for 46 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Latonya Lattie
Total US births 21,824529
Most in one year 1,29625
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 21,00060
Median age today 4976
Peak year 19741919
Best rank 197th girls1,855th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19511889
Girls / boys 21,757 / 67393 / 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 Latonyas are over 49. That is 27 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: Latonya and Lattie.