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Latoya vs Latoyia

American parents have registered 45,748 Latoyas since 1880, against 1,578 Latoyias. Latoya is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Latoya 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

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 1969, when Latoya had 20 and Latoyia had 6.

Side by side

  Latoya Latoyia
Total US births 45,7481,578
Most in one year 5,069167
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 44,0001,500
Median age today 4243
Peak year 19841981
Best rank 60th girls895th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 19601969
Girls / boys 45,563 / 1851,578 / 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: Latoya and Latoyia.