Latona

Girls' name

Form of Leto

Latona has been given to 345 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1971, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Latona, 1991

1 in 649,000

Latona over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Latona: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Leto

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Latona means

Latona is a form of Leto.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Latona is used in Roman Mythology.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Latona → Leto. The family’s proposed meaning is “wife”, recorded in the naming reference for Leto.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leto.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 345 girls were recorded with the name Latona between 1956 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1971; its best national rank was #3,013 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Latona?

Latona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991: 1 in 649,000; 6 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only: 1 in 312,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 449,730 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Latona 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 1991 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 449,730 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Latona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Latonas were born

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

Median birth year: 1974; About 51 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 79.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 345; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Latona 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1971 (23)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 44.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,013; 1971

Spellings of Latona

Latona is not the most common spelling — Leona is, with 24.8% against Latona's 0.08%.

Leona24.8%113,330
Ramona15.5%70,874
Lana12.6%57,434
Latoya10.0%45,563
Latonya4.8%21,757
Ladonna4.6%21,233
Katina2.5%11,306
Lona2.4%10,907

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.

Latona 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: —
Best rank ever: #3,013; 1971
Peak year: 1971; 23 that year
First recorded: 1956
Last recorded: 1991
All-time count: 345
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Latona

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

Latifa Alyona Halona Lattie Aviona Siyona Latoia Latika Lationa Latora Latisa Latyra Theona Latice Latesa Melona Lateka Latiya Latori Lataya Siona Cleona Petrona Daviona

Sibling names for Latona

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

For a sister

Trena Charisse Darcie Michell Tressa Kerrie Nicola Tisha

For a brother

Shon Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Scottie Erich Edwardo

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