# Lata (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lata/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “creeper” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Sanskrit लता (latā, “creeper”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | 9,111 |

## In other languages

- French: Lata
- Hindi: लता
- Russian: Лата
- Spanish: Lata

## People named Lata

- Lata Mondal, Bangladeshi female cricketer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.