girls:
21.8k births since 1951
#981 (83rd percentile)
boys:
67 births since 1971
#4519 (1st percentile)
overall:
21.8k births since 1951
#1727 (78th percentile)
The name Latonya is the #1,727 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,824 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 77.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #981 (82.8% percentile) for all time with 21,757 births since 1951. For boys, it ranks #4,519 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1971.
Latonya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Latonya is available in 70 out of the 72 years between 1951 and 2022 (70 years for girls and 11 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Latonya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Latonya reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 74.4% percentile (ranked #192) with 824 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 824 births per million (ranked 74.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Latonya reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Latonya".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Latonya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.8% confident that Latonya is pronounced as luh-TOH-nyuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-TAW-nyuh, at 29.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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