first name
LATOYA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 37,472 people named Latoya, 92.3% reported their origin as Black, 3.2% as two or more races and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 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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Latoya peaked in 1984, when 5,069 babies got the name.
At least 45,748 babies have been given the name since 1960. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Latoya by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #207. The largest share of babies named Latoya, 66.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Latoya is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Latoya has been most common in Mississippi (3.4×), District of Columbia (3×), and South Carolina (2.9×), and least common in Minnesota (0.07×).
43,975 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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