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Latonia

Girls' name

Place name used as a given name; older meaning unconfirmed

Latonia has been given to 5,120 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 371 recorded.

Babies named Latonia, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Latonia: meaning, origin, and history

Place name used as a given name; older meaning unconfirmed

coinages and place names

What Latonia means

Latonia comes from a place name.

Origin, language, and formation

Latonia is used in English. Its origins include coinages and place names.

Latonia is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,104 girls were recorded with the name Latonia between 1947 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 371 in 1972; its best national rank was #481 in 1972.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Latonia between 1971 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,166 in 1975.

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 Latonia?

Latonia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Latonia 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Latonia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Latonias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Latonia was born before 1973 — so the typical Latonia is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,093
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (2,646).

Is Latonia 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 (371)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#481
1972

Spellings of Latonia

Latonia is not the most common spelling — Latoya is, with 21.6% against Latonia's 2.4%.

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 Latonia is used

Across 1910–2025, Latonia was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 33,786 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 12,500
  3. 3Alabama1 in 16,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 16,667
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 20,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 20,000

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. Latonia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Latonia around the world

Where Latonia 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
    1998–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1965–1965
    #674
    in 1965

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.

Latonia 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
#481
1972
Peak year
1972
371 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
5,104
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,166
1975
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Latonia

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

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Names with a curve like Latonia

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

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Sibling names for Latonia

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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