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Lateef

Boys' name

Gentle, kind

Lateef has been given to 891 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Lateef, 2022

1 in 564,000

Lateef over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lateef: meaning, origin, and history

Gentle, kind

Arabic

What Lateef means

Lateef means “gentle, kind”, associated with laṭīf.

Origin, language, and formation

Lateef is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Lateef comes through Arabic لَطِيف.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 891 boys were recorded with the name Lateef between 1967 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 47 in 1977; its best national rank was #1,328 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lateef?

Lateef had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lateef sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lateef. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lateefs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lateef was born before 1984 — so the typical Lateef is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
891
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (289).

Is Lateef rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (47)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,328
1977

Spellings of Lateef

Lateef is the most-used spelling, taking 42.5% of the 2,097 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lateef is used

Across 1910–2025, Lateef was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 208,060 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lateef has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lateef around the world

Where Lateef ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2001–2001
    #409
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Lateef by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,328
1977
Peak year
1977
47 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
891
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lateef

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Lateef

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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