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Re: Name meaning
what do my name means? what is the population? what is the description?
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Please be careful to start your own thread in the future instead of introducing a new question into someone else's thread.According to Latoya Jackson's autobiography, her mother simply invented this name. It was very common in the African-American community in the 1970s and 1980s for new names to be created starting with the syllable La-. Ms. Jackson's mother hasn't given any further information on how she created the name. Toya is possibly a shortening of Tonya, but Toya has also been used as a pet form of Victoria and Custodia in the Mexican-American community.
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