first name
LATONYA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 16,400 people named Latonya, 92.9% reported their origin as Black, 3% as White and 2.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Latonya peaked in 1974, when 1,296 babies got the name.
At least 21,824 babies have been given the name since 1951. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Latonya by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #451. The largest share of babies named Latonya, 66.2%, 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. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Latonya is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Latonya has been most common in District of Columbia (4.1×), Mississippi (3.8×), and Alabama (3.5×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.27×).
20,198 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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