How Many People Are Named Latonya?

20,574

people named Latonya are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 16,612 people in the US has this name

Based on 21,824 babies named Latonya in Social Security records from 1951 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,597

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#859

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Peak Year

1974

1,296 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Combination of the popular prefix La with the name TONYA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.7%
Male
0.3%

Almost all of the babies given the name Latonya (99.7%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Latonya alive today is about 48 years old, and 92% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 43 and 54 in 2025.

Under 30 544
2.6%
30 to 59 18,851
91.6%
60 and over 1,179
5.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Latonya first appears in the records in 1951 and was given most often in 1974, to 1,296 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.

Babies given the name each year, 1951 to 2022

🏆 Rank History

Latonya has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #197, in 1974.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#197 (1974)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#244 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Latonya alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Latonya were born in Illinois than in any other state: about 1,636 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Latonya was given 4.2 times as often in Mississippi, 3.9 times in Alabama and 3.9 times in District of Columbia.

Illinois 1,636
Texas 1,566
Georgia 1,320
Alabama 1,229
North Carolina 1,224
Michigan 1,138
Florida 1,115
Louisiana 1,010
California 940
Mississippi 937
Tennessee 798
South Carolina 775
Virginia 700
Ohio 661
New York 535
Missouri 504
Maryland 493
Arkansas 389
Indiana 367
District of Columbia 354
Pennsylvania 317
Kentucky 312
New Jersey 306
Oklahoma 159
Wisconsin 102
Kansas 66
Connecticut 26
Nevada 16
Arizona 10
Delaware 10
Colorado 9
Massachusetts 6
New Mexico 5
West Virginia 5

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