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Latanya vs Latrice

American parents have registered 9,873 Latanyas since 1880, against 9,154 Latrices. But in 2025 it was Latrice that was commoner, 5 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Latanya against Latrice, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Latanya Latrice

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 76 years in which either name was published, Latrice for 42 years and Latanya for 34 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Latanya Latrice
Total US births 9,8739,154
Most in one year 520381
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 9,2008,800
Median age today 5143
Peak year 19721981
Best rank 394th girls516th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19471954
Girls / boys 9,850 / 239,137 / 17

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Latanyas alive today are over 51; half the Latrices are over 43. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Latanya and Latrice.