# Latifa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/latifa/  
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 | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Lateefa, Lateefah, Latifah |
| US babies named this | 830 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 830 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 270, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَطِيفَة (laṭīfa).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 12,842 |
| 2012 | 9 | 11,822 |
| 2013 | 11 | 9,964 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,587 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,457 |
| 2016 | 10 | 10,526 |
| 2017 | 11 | 9,661 |
| 2018 | 18 | 6,677 |
| 2019 | 9 | 10,975 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,757 |
| 2021 | 9 | 10,755 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10,095 |
| 2023 | 14 | 7,860 |
| 2024 | 12 | 8,729 |
| 2025 | 13 | 8,133 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 2,275 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,521 |
| 2013 | 14 | 1,956 |
| 2014 | 12 | 2,203 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 13 | 2,040 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3,015 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Latifa

- Latifa al-Zayyat, Egyptian activist and writer (1923–1996)
- Latifa Ibn Ziaten, French-Moroccan activist
- Latifa al-Droubi, First Lady of Syria since 2025
- Latifa Nabizada, Afghan helicopter pilot
- Latifa Ben Mansour, Algerian writer

## 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.