Latoya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Latoya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Modern English/African-American name, likely created from the Spanish article la + Toya or from Victoria/Toya.
- GYGuyana1 in 956(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.6K
- USUnited States1 in 8.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 439 (measured from records)
- 1 in 956 (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Modern English/African-American name, likely created from the Spanish article la + Toya or from Victoria/Toya.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Latoya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Latoya | 5 |
| US United States | #719 | 37,472 | 1 in 8.9K | 37K | Latoya | 439 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Latoya | 131 |
| JM Jamaica | #41 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Latoya | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Latoya | 104 |
| GA Gabon | #282 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Latoya | 4 |
| GY Guyana | #6 | 785 | 1 in 956 | 785 | Latoya | 13 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Latoya | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Latoya is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Prénom surtout diffusé aux États-Unis; origine incertaine dans l’ouvrage.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Spanish; used in the USA
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- LaToya Cantrellb. 1972US62nd Mayor of New Orleans
- LaToya Londonb. 1978USAmerican actress and singer
- LaToya Thomasb. 1981USAmerican basketball player (born 1981)
- LaToya Ruby Frazierb. 1982USAmerican photographer and professor (born 1982)
- Spiceb. 1982JMnot in their usual nameJamaican singer and deejay (born 1982)
- LaToya Bondb. 1984USAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
- LaToya Pringleb. 1986USTurkish-American basketball player (born 1986)
- Shari Watsonb. 1986BBnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Latoya Bruleeb. 1988BEcyclist
- LaToya MorganAmerican writer and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Latoya mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern English/African-American name, likely created from the Spanish article la + Toya or from Victoria/Toya. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Latoya a male or female name?
- Latoya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Latoya?
- In the etymology graph, Victoria, Vicki and Vickie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Latoya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Latoya in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled latoya.
- Where is Latoya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Latoya is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 956 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Latoya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,472 people named Latoya in 2020, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Latoya compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Latoya is the 6th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/latoyaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Latoya” — the 6th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.