Latoya

Where Latoya comes from

Possibly La- + Toya (“a Spanish pet form of Victoria”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Latoya
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1960
    First appearance
    #5,696 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1984
    Peak, #60
    5,051 babies named Latoya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1986
    Latoya Greaves born
    Jamaican hurdler
  4. 1987
    Latoya Williams born
    American basketball player
  5. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #128.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
Namesakes
  • Latoya Greaves · Jamaican hurdler, born 1986
  • Latoya Williams · American basketball player, born 1987
  • Latoya Brulee · cyclist, born 1988
  • Latoya Blackwood · rugby union player, born 1985

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.