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Girl · Modern American coinage
Latoya
Say it: lah-TOY-ah
Meaning
A modern African American coinage combining the prefix La- with Toya, itself perhaps from Antoinette or Victoria.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Part of the La- prefix fashion that peaked in the 1970s and 1980s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1980s
In the United States
- 45,709 babies given this name since 1960
- At its height in 1984, about 1 in 333 girls
- 15 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: LaToya, Latoyia
Famous bearers
- LaToya Jackson, singer
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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