NewName Shortlist 0 Meaning This name is in the birth records, but its history has not yet been added to the library. We add meanings only when they can be given with a source.
Its wave through time Fading since the 1890s
In the United States 0 20 40 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Peak 1896 per 100,000 babies of that sex 10,420 babies given this name since 1880 At its height in 1896, about 1 in 2,500 girls 5 babies in 2020 Names worth a look Lydia Girl Greek, 'woman from Lydia', a region of western Asia Minor. Biblical · peak 1890 Lloyd Boy Welsh llwyd 'grey'. Victorian · peak 1918 Lottie Girl English pet form of Charlotte, from Germanic karl 'man, free man'. Victorian · peak 1894 Latoya Girl A modern African American coinage combining the prefix La- with Toya, itself perhaps from Antoinette or Victoria. Modern · peak 1984 · forgotten Leticia Girl Latin laetitia 'joy, gladness'. Modern · peak 1976 Loyd Boy A spelling of Lloyd, from Welsh llwyd 'grey'. Victorian · peak 1919 · forgotten Latonya Girl A modern African-American coinage combining the prefix La- with Tonya, a Russian pet form of Antonina. Modern · peak 1974 · forgotten Latisha Girl An American form of Leticia, from Latin laetitia 'joy, gladness'. Modern · peak 1979 · forgotten Where this comes from United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.