Latoya
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Latoya is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern English/African-American name, likely created from the Spanish article la + Toya or from Victoria/Toya.
- GYGuyana1 in 956◐
- JMJamaica1 in 2.3K
- USUnited States1 in 8.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈39K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 391 ●
- 1 in 956 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
435K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Modern English/African-American name, likely created from the Spanish article la + Toya or from Victoria/Toya.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #710 | 37,417 | 397K rec. | 1 in 8.9K | 37K | Latoya | 391 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 10,192 | 9.7K rec. | — | listed | Latoya | 101 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,499 | 3.3K rec. | — | 1 | Latoya | 81 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 3,481 | 337 rec. | — | — | Latoya | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,731 | 2.6K rec. | — | 4 | Latoya | 64 |
| JM Jamaica | #25 | 2,073 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Latoya | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | 946 | 978 rec. | — | — | Latoya | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | 930 | 920 rec. | — | 1 | Latoya | 58 |
| FR France | — | 878 | 762 rec. | — | listed | Latoya | 77 |
| GY Guyana | #5 | 785 | 2K rec. | 1 in 956 | 785 | Latoya | 15 |
| RU Russia | — | 724 | 743 rec. | — | — | Latoya | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 461 | 400 rec. | 1 in 37K | 461 | Latoya | 32 |
Roughly 37K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 8.9K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English448K81%
- 34K6%
- Spanish22K4%
- Swahili5.4K1%
- Portuguese4K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 448,013 | 81% |
| 34,099 | 6% | |
| Spanish | 21,963 | 4% |
| Swahili | 5,398 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 4,037 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Latoya is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Prénom surtout diffusé aux États-Unis; origine incertaine dans l’ouvrage.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Spanish; used in the USA
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1964 | 7 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 20 |
| 1970 | 77 |
| 1971 | 145 |
| 1972 | 296 |
| 1973 | 488 |
| 1974 | 958 |
| 1975 | 1,202 |
| 1976 | 2,052 |
| 1977 | 2,321 |
| 1978 | 2,040 |
| 1979 | 1,880 |
| 1980 | 2,506 |
| 1981 | 4,266 |
| 1982 | 3,201 |
| 1983 | 3,150 |
| 1984 | 5,051 |
| 1985 | 3,402 |
| 1986 | 2,537 |
| 1987 | 2,151 |
| 1988 | 1,810 |
| 1989 | 1,463 |
| 1990 | 1,117 |
| 1991 | 810 |
| 1992 | 580 |
| 1993 | 377 |
| 1994 | 220 |
| 1995 | 165 |
| 1996 | 135 |
| 1997 | 111 |
| 1998 | 77 |
| 1999 | 83 |
| 2000 | 68 |
| 2001 | 64 |
| 2002 | 60 |
| 2003 | 43 |
| 2004 | 67 |
| 2005 | 51 |
| 2006 | 56 |
| 2007 | 55 |
| 2008 | 33 |
| 2009 | 36 |
| 2010 | 46 |
| 2011 | 28 |
| 2012 | 29 |
| 2013 | 21 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 21 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 63 years between 1960–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- LaToya Cantrellb. 1972US62nd Mayor of New Orleans
- LaToya Londonb. 1978USAmerican actress and singer
- LaToya Thomasb. 1981USAmerican basketball player (born 1981)
- LaToya Ruby Frazierb. 1982USAmerican photographer and professor (born 1982)
- Spiceb. 1982JMnot in their usual nameJamaican singer and deejay (born 1982)
- LaToya Bondb. 1984USAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
- LaToya Pringleb. 1986USTurkish-American basketball player (born 1986)
- Shari Watsonb. 1986BBnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Latoya Bruleeb. 1988BEcyclist
- LaToya MorganAmerican writer and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 46 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 182 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Latoya?
- We estimate roughly 39 thousand people bear Latoya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Latoya have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 37 thousand people bear Latoya in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled latoya.
- Where is Latoya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Latoya is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 956 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Latoya compared with other names?
- In the United States, Latoya is the 710th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Latoya a male or female name?
- Latoya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Latoya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Modern English/African-American name, likely created from the Spanish article la + Toya or from Victoria/Toya.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Latoya” — the 710th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.