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Latif

Boys' name

Gentle, nice, kind, through لَطِيف

Latif has been given to 411 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1991, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Latif, 2021

1 in 282,000

Latif 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Latif: meaning, origin, and history

Gentle, nice, kind, through لَطِيف

Arabic

What Latif means

Latif belongs to the name family reached through Latif → لَطِيف. Its meaning is “gentle, nice, kind”.

Origin, language, and formation

Latif is used in English, Albanian and Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Latif comes through Arabic لَطِيف.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Latifa and لَطِيف.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 411 boys were recorded with the name Latif between 1971 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1991; its best national rank was #2,647 in 1991.

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 Latif?

Latif had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 282,000
12 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
195,813 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Latif 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 2021 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 195,813 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Latif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Latifs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Latif was born before 1995 — so the typical Latif is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
411
People you could plausibly meet
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1990s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Latif 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 1991 (26)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,647
1991

Spellings of Latif

Latif is not the most common spelling — Leif is, with 58.6% against Latif's 2.4%.

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 Latif is used

Across 1910–2025, Latif was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 580,856 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Latif has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Latif around the world

Where Latif 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
    1996–2022
    #3,450
    in 2022
  • France
    1978–2025
    #4,700
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1990–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Latif 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
#2,647
1991
Peak year
1991
26 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
411
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Latif

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

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Sibling names for Latif

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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