Latanya

Where Latanya comes from

From La- + Tanya.
— Wiktionary's entry for Latanya
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #4,345 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #393
    519 babies named Latanya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #724.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name of African-American usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Latanya turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.