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Latorya vs Latoya

American parents have registered 45,748 Latoyas since 1880, against 532 Latoryas. Latoya is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Latorya 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

Latoya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Latorya had 5 and Latoya had 220.

Side by side

  Latorya Latoya
Total US births 53245,748
Most in one year 525,069
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 51044,000
Median age today 4242
Peak year 19841984
Best rank 1,961st girls60th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,917th
First recorded 19751960
Girls / boys 532 / 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.

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