first name
LATONIA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 3,810 people named Latonia, 89.3% reported their origin as Black, 5.5% as White and 3% as two or more races. 99.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Latonia peaked in 1972, when 371 babies got the name.
At least 5,120 babies have been given the name since 1947. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Latonia by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,110. The largest share of babies named Latonia, 74.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Latonia is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Latonia has been most common in Mississippi (4.4×), Louisiana (3.4×), and South Carolina (2.7×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.21×).
3,722 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.
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