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Latanya

Girls' name

La- prefix combined with Tanya

Latanya has been given to 9,873 babies in the U.S. since 1947. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 520 recorded.

Babies named Latanya, 2023

1 in 552,000

Latanya over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Latanya: meaning, origin, and history

La- prefix combined with Tanya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Latanya means

Latanya is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Latanya is used in African American.

The naming story behind Latanya

The reference describes Latanya as a formation made by attaching the naming prefix la to Tanya. The documented base is Tanya, rather than a name chosen only because its spelling looks similar.

This formation records how the source explains Latanya. The linked entry for Tanya supplies the separate history of that earlier name.

Origin, language, and formation

Latanya is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tanya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,850 girls were recorded with the name Latanya between 1947 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 520 in 1972; its best national rank was #394 in 1972.

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Latanya between 1969 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1971; its best national rank was #4,193 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Latanya?

Latanya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Latanya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Latanya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Latanyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Latanya was born before 1974 — so the typical Latanya is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
9,830
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (4,655).

Is Latanya rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1972 (520)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#394
1972

Spellings of Latanya

Latanya is not the most common spelling — Tanya is, with 41.2% against Latanya's 3.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Latanya is used

Across 1910–2025, Latanya was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 16,774 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 4,348
  2. 2Maryland1 in 7,143
  3. 3Illinois1 in 7,692
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 9,091
  5. 5Alabama1 in 10,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 10,000
  7. 7California1 in 12,500
  8. 8Michigan1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Latanya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Latanya around the world

Where Latanya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2007
    #4,294
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2001–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Latanya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#394
1972
Peak year
1972
520 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
9,850
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,193
1971
Peak year
1971
7 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Latanya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Latanya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Latanya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Latanya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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