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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

≈66,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
439 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 956 (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LatoyaLatin(measured from records)
ЛатояCyrillic(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.

Where Latoya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈66,000 est.≈1 in 21K—Latoya5
US United States#71937,4721 in 8.9K37KLatoya439
GB United Kingdom—≈3,700 est.≈1 in 18KlistedLatoya131
JM Jamaica#41≈1,700 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Latoya27
CA Canada—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 22K1Latoya104
GA Gabon#282≈1,400 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Latoya4
GY Guyana#67851 in 956785Latoya13
GR Greece—≈650 est.≈1 in 16K—Latoya4

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; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Latoya is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Latóya

  • Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written La-Toya

  • English (Guyana) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Guyana, United States

    Also written La-Toya

  • English (Trinidad & Tobago) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Trinidad & Tobago

    Also written La-Toya

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

197019801990LaToya Cantrell, b. 1972LaToya London, b. 1978LaToya Thomas, b. 1981LaToya Ruby Frazier, b. 1982Spice, b. 1982LaToya Bond, b. 1984LaToya Pringle, b. 1986Shari Watson, b. 1986Latoya Brulee, b. 1988

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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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.

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