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Latina

Gender
Girl
Say it
luh-TEE-nuh
Origin
Modern

Latina is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Latina come from?

Modern: probably La- prefix plus Tina

Is Latina a girl's or a boy's name?

Latina is a girls' name.

How popular is Latina in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1973, with 96 girls. It first appears in the records in 1950.

Half of all the girls named Latina in the US since 1880 were born between 1972 and 1985, the years shaded on the chart below.

1950Busiest: 96 in 19732011
Latina in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20116#14,816
20100–
20090–
20080–
20078#12,671
20060–
20059#10,915
200414#7,823
20038#11,319
200216#6,692
20019#10,095
200011#8,527
199910#8,798
199813#7,099
199716#5,864
199622#4,578
199516#5,672
199417#5,440
199327#3,872
199227#3,860
199140#2,880
199039#2,895
198935#3,039
198842#2,534
198743#2,396
198643#2,343
198568#1,690
198467#1,633
198363#1,715
198267#1,684
198167#1,700
198087#1,417
197980#1,482
197883#1,397
197775#1,468
197678#1,373
197593#1,229
197488#1,239
197396#1,143
197290#1,192
197156#1,640
197071#1,444
196946#1,809
196846#1,728
196742#1,783
196631#2,093
196521#2,683
196429#2,245
196333#2,060
196221#2,667
196118#2,956
196011#3,919
195915#3,103
195814#3,231
195710#3,929
19560–
19556#5,207
19540–
19530–
19520–
19510–
19506#4,736

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Latina: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/latina, updated 20 October 2026.