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Latoya vs Latrica

American parents have registered 45,748 Latoyas since 1880, against 503 Latricas. Latoya is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Latoya Latrica

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 64 years in which either name was published, Latoya for 61 years and Latrica for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Latoya Latrica
Total US births 45,748503
Most in one year 5,06936
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 44,000480
Median age today 4247
Peak year 19841973
Best rank 60th girls2,171st girls
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 19601962
Girls / boys 45,563 / 185503 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Latricas alive today are over 47; half the Latoyas are over 42. That is 5 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: Latoya and Latrica.