Fewer than five US girls were named Latonya in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #197, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,290. For comparison, it was #17,973 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Latonya in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 5 babies. In all, 21,824 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 10,955 babies named Latonya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29 US girls were named Latonya; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 7.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Latanya (9,873 babies since 1880) and Latonia (5,120 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Latania, Latunya and Latonyia are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.