How rare is the name Latanya?

7,290 people in the United States have the first name Latanya, about 1 in 41,431. It ranks #3,042 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LATANYA

#3,042

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,290
About
1 in 41,431
This common or more
81.5%
Who bears it

Of the 7,290 people named Latanya, 91% reported their origin as Black, 3% as two or more races and 2.4% as White. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Latanya peaked in 1972, when 520 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19472023
Peak year
1972
Births that year
520
In 2023
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,873 babies have been given the name since 1947. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Latanya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #806. The largest share of babies named Latanya, 64.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#9,29820
1950s#2,355523
1960s#1,2042,126
1970s#8064,668
1980s#1,4681,932
1990s#4,661439
2000s#13,531132
2010s#30,91227
2020s#36,8006
Baby boom 1946–6413.5%
Generation X 1965–8064.6%
Millennials 1981–9619.7%
Generation Z 1997–122.1%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Latanya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Latanya has been most common in District of Columbia (4.3×), Maryland (2.6×), and Illinois (2.5×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.25×).

8,228 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Latanya

#3,040 Refugio · 7,298#3,041 Akira · 7,291#3,043 Kasen · 7,289#3,044 Indira · 7,287

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Latanya, most common first.

#1,808 Latonya · 16,400#4,762 Latonia · 3,810#8,381 Latina · 1,734#21,264 Latania · 479#28,260 Ladana · 319#31,394 Latona · 273#39,517 Ladonya · 191#41,955 Latiana · 173

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