Latifa
About 830 American babies have been named Latifa since 1963, most of them around 1990. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 810 Latifas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Latifa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 830
- Estimated living today
- 810
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 2,640th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1963
How old the living Latifas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 830 babies given the name since 1963, about 810 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Latifas
- Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum (born 1985)sheikha of Dubai
- Lalla Latifa (1946–2024)Moroccan royal
- Latifa (born 1961)Tunisian actress and singer
- Latifa al-Zayyat (1923–1996)Egyptian activist and writer
- Latifa Ibn Ziaten (born 1960)French-Moroccan activist
- Latifa al-Droubi (born 1994)First Lady of Syria since 2025
- Latifa Ahrar (born 1971)Moroccan actress
- Latifa Nabizada (born 1969)Afghan helicopter pilot
People named Latifa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Latifa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Latifa is most concentrated in New York (7.4×), New Jersey (7.1×), Pennsylvania (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Latifa peaked:
Latifa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Latifa | 4,105 | 244th |
| England and Wales girls | Latifa | 270 | 1,731st |
| Belgium girls | Latifa | 110 | 717th |
| Ireland girls | Latifa | 3 | 689th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Latifa: rank by region
In 2018, Latifa was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Latifa | 859 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Latifa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Latifa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Latifa | 35 | 43 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Latifa lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 5,132 women called Latifa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Latifa | 133 | 3.211 | 63 |
| Melilla | Latifa | 99 | 2.286 | 95 |
| AlmerÃa | Latifa | 227 | 0.602 | 230 |
| Girona | Latifa | 204 | 0.493 | 269 |
| Tarragona | Latifa | 215 | 0.492 | 286 |
| Murcia | Latifa | 371 | 0.468 | 268 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Latifa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.