Girls' name · peaked in 1984

Latoya name popularity since 1925

45,748 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Latoya. Half of them were born in 1983 or earlier, so the typical Latoya is about 43 years old in 2026. Latoya peaked in 1984 as the #60 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 45,748; Named Latoya, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1984; #60 for girls that year
Typical age: About 43; Median birth year 1983
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #11,486 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.6% girls; 45,563 girls · 185 boys
Most popular in: Mississippi; 3.51× its national share

Peak year is the year Latoya made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Latoya births per year, 1925–2025

1984 was the biggest year for Latoya both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1971 and 1976, Latoya became 16× more common, from 1 in 11,500 baby girls to 1 in 714.
Steepest fall: Between 1989 and 1994, its share of baby girls fell by 84%, from 1 in 1,260 to 1 in 8,120.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Latoya's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Latoya.

Decade by decade

Babies named Latoya in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	0	0	Under 5
1940s	0	0	Under 5
1950s	0	0	Under 5
1960s	71	0	#5,558
1970s	11,459	58	#205
1980s	29,537	121	#81
1990s	3,675	6	#1,082
2000s	533	0	#3,108
2010s	236	0	#6,149
2020–25	52	0	#11,486

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

66.8% of babies named Latoya from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Where Latoya is most popular

The index compares Latoya's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Latoya.

State	Index	Babies
Mississippi	3.51×	1,889
South Carolina	2.97×	1,851
District of Columbia	2.89×	592
Louisiana	2.83×	2,258
North Carolina	2.05×	2,584

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Latoya's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Latoya.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Latoya (1984).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data