In 2025, 8 US girls were named Latoya, making it the 11,486th most common girls’ name of the year, up 219 places from #11,705 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 girls named Latoya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #60, reached in 1984. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,051. For comparison, it was #6,149 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Latoya in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 45,748 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 29,658 babies named Latoya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 117 US girls were named Latoya; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Latoyia (1,578 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Latoia, Letoya and Latoiya are summarised on this page.
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