Comments for the name Latoya

LaToya is one of Michael Jackson's sisters.

La Toya London came in fourth in the third season of American Idol. Fabulous singer.

I loathe this name. It just isn't appealing to me.

Gaaaah, I HATE this name with a burning passion! It's hideously ugly and trashy! It's as if someone had wanted to call their daughter a toy and added a creepy ''ah'' to it.

No offense, but it is really ugly.

Straight from the ghetto. Yuck!

This name is hideous and obviously ghetto.

I think LaToya is a really pretty and unique name. I can't believe people hate it so much.

I don't think LaToya is that ghetto. It is such a common name now that there are plenty of non-ghetto people with it.

Latoya comes from one of the nicknames for Victoria which is Toya. I like the name. My first name is Victoria. Latoya is not trashy or ghetto it comes from a name that is regal.

My true dislike stems from the fact that it is a "kre8tiv" made up name. Which in turn means that it is fairly unintelligent in sound, unprofessional, uneducated, attempted ornate, pompous, and childish... among my personal opinion of "Ugly."
It is a failed venture of trying to appear "French." The addition of "La" to any given name immediately creates a trashy, tacky, and cheap appearance.
It certainly is not a name that will aid your child in the business world. A doctor by the name of LaToya Richards will not be hired as my heart surgeon. Nor would a LaToya Sparks be a favored lawyer in a case. Think of the whole picture, I beg.

"Will this name prove to be an added barrier, possibly wrongly denying my child a position in a company?" "How will the world see it?" "Will my child be the object of gradeschool mocking?" and, "Will I be thanked later in life for the name I chose?"

I don't like prefixed names that much. I think if someone wants to name their kid this, they should write it as Latoya instead of LaToya.