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Latifa

#8,131 in 2025Girls' name

Gentle, nice, kind, through لَطِيفَة

Latifa has been given to 830 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #8,131 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Latifa, 2025

1 in 255,000

Latifa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Latifa: meaning, origin, and history

Gentle, nice, kind, through لَطِيفَة

Arabic

What Latifa means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Latifa is used in English and Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Latifa comes through Arabic لَطِيفَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Latif, لَطِيفَة and لَطِيف.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 830 girls were recorded with the name Latifa between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,509 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,752 in 2020 to #8,131 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,452 in 2015 to #8,131 in 2025.

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 Latifa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,131
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Latifa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Latifa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Latifas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Latifa was born before 1990 — so the typical Latifa is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
830
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (207).

Is Latifa 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
+593
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,621
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,321
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.5%
Peak was 1990 (44)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,509
1980

Spellings of Latifa

Latifa is not the most common spelling — Latoya is, with 20.6% against Latifa's 0.38%.

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 Latifa is used

Across 1910–2025, Latifa was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 136,171 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Latifa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Latifa around the world

Where Latifa 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2005–2005
    #689
    in 2005
  • France
    1951–2025
    #2,575
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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

Latifa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,131
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,621
Best rank ever
#2,509
1980
Peak year
1990
44 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
830
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Latifa

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

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Sibling names for Latifa

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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