Latroy
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Latroy has been given to 865 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1977, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Latroy, 2024
1 in 669,000
Latroy over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Latroy?
Latroy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Latroy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Latroy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Latroys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Latroy was born before 1985 — so the typical Latroy is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 29.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 865
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (253).
Is Latroy 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 1977 (48)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.2% average annual change
Spellings of Latroy
Latroy is not the most common spelling — Larry is, with 65.1% against Latroy's 0.07%.
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 Latroy is used
Across 1910–2025, Latroy was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 913,935 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Latroy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Latroy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Latroy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Latroy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.