Latifah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- luh-TEE-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Latifah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “gentle, kind”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Latifah mean?
Arabic: feminine of Latif
“gentle, kind”
Feminine of Latif; al-Latif, the Gentle or Subtle One, is one of the ninety-nine names of God in Islam.
Is Latifah a girl's or a boy's name?
Latifah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Latifah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Latifah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2014. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Latifah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 8 | #3,148 |
| 2011 | 14 | #2,032 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 16 | #1,763 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 12 | #2,083 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 10 | #2,064 |
| 2003 | 15 | #1,492 |
| 2002 | 9 | #2,040 |
| 2001 | 7 | #2,341 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 7 | #2,295 |
| 1998 | 9 | #1,951 |
| 1997 | 10 | #1,780 |
| 1996 | 7 | #2,201 |
How popular is Latifah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Latifah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 1990, with 300 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974.
Half of all the girls named Latifah in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 1993, the years shaded on the chart below.
Latifah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,317 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,786 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,655 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,158 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,280 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,900 |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,918 |
| 1992 | 251 | #800 |
| 1991 | 150 | #1,164 |
| 1990 | 300 | #700 |
| 1989 | 93 | #1,529 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,608 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,184 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,075 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,221 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,948 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,526 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,858 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,215 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,333 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,859 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,082 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,213 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,982 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,898 |
Names like Latifah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Farah, Aaliyah, Ruqayyah, Hibah, Umamah, Sumayyah, Umaymah, Aakifah, Aaminah, Safiya, Zainab, Nusaybah
Names related to Latifah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Latifah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/latifah, updated 20 October 2026.