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Latanya

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Latanya is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 394th, in 1972, 1975.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1972520 births
Best rank
#394first in 1972
Since 1947
9,850people given the name
Babies named Latanya, by year of birthgirls
02505007501k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

9,850 girls have been named Latanya in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 520 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 520 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1970s alone account for 47%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Latanya
1940s20
1950s523
1960s2,121
1970s4,655
1980s1,927
1990s439
2000s132
2010s27
2020s6

In 1972, its biggest year

Latanya was the 394th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.

Names that rose and fell with Latanya

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.