Latifa
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Latifa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pretty, charming, sweet, kind, friendly; fem.
- KWKuwait1 in 617◐
- TNTunisia1 in 689
- MAMorocco1 in 842
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 236 ●
- 1 in 9.2K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
101K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Латифа in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 3 more, Latifah in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and ลาตีฟะห์ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
pretty, charming, sweet, kind, friendly; fem. of Latif. See Latif (m.). Latifa al-Zayat: "a distinguished novelist." ©
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #67 | 18,250 | 19K rec. | — | listed | Latifa | 95 |
| MY Malaysia | #446 | 10,838 | 4K rec. | — | — | Latifah | 37 |
| RU Russia | — | 6,150 | 2.7K rec. | — | #679 | Латифа | 89 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 5,906 | 2.4K rec. | — | listed | Latifah | 117 |
| TN Tunisia | #41 | 5,776 | 1.9K rec. | — | 1.9K | Latifa | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,132△ | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 9.7K | 5.1K | Latifa | 44 |
| FR France | — | 4,075 | 29K rec. | 1 in 17K | 4.1K | Latifa | 236 |
| KW Kuwait | #61 | 3,708 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Latifa | 52 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #455 | 2,593 | 1K rec. | — | — | Latifa | 91 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #148 | 2,294 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Latifa | 89 |
| SY Syria | — | 2,281 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Latifa | 9 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 2,077 | 3.9K rec. | 1 in 9.2K | 2.2K | Латифа | 27 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French51K28%
- Arabic32K17%
- Spanish17K9%
- English15K8%
- Hindi9.7K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 51,100 | 28% |
| Arabic | 31,889 | 17% |
| Spanish | 16,557 | 9% |
| English | 14,793 | 8% |
| Hindi | 9,728 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Latifa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, pretty, charming, gentle, sweet, refined, kind
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Latif.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Arabic: kind, gentle
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, weibl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs; weibliche Form zu
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Uzbek, anecdote
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1921 | 2 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 4 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 3 |
| 1932 | 3 |
| 1933 | 6 |
| 1934 | 8 |
| 1935 | 8 |
| 1936 | 6 |
| 1937 | 8 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 7 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1942 | 9 |
| 1943 | 13 |
| 1944 | 12 |
| 1945 | 9 |
| 1946 | 19 |
| 1947 | 16 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 12 |
| 1950 | 9 |
| 1951 | 17 |
| 1952 | 16 |
| 1953 | 15 |
| 1954 | 11 |
| 1955 | 18 |
| 1956 | 26 |
| 1957 | 10 |
| 1958 | 30 |
| 1959 | 20 |
| 1960 | 25 |
| 1961 | 31 |
| 1962 | 33 |
| 1963 | 23 |
| 1964 | 28 |
| 1965 | 24 |
| 1966 | 28 |
| 1967 | 27 |
| 1968 | 25 |
| 1969 | 28 |
| 1970 | 25 |
| 1971 | 28 |
| 1972 | 34 |
| 1973 | 27 |
| 1974 | 19 |
| 1975 | 23 |
| 1976 | 22 |
| 1977 | 25 |
| 1978 | 30 |
| 1979 | 31 |
| 1980 | 26 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 32 |
| 1983 | 32 |
| 1984 | 18 |
| 1985 | 34 |
| 1986 | 28 |
| 1987 | 38 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 17 |
| 1990 | 18 |
| 1991 | 20 |
| 1992 | 16 |
| 1993 | 18 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 86 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Latife Uşşakîb. 1898TRnot in their usual nameWife of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and First Lady of Turkey (1898-1975)
- Latifa al-Zayyatb. 1923EGEgyptian activist and writer (1923–1996)
- Lalla Latifab. 1946MAMoroccan royal
- Latifa bint Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1949SAMember of the House of Saud
- Latife Tekinb. 1957TRnot in their usual nameTurkish writer (born 1957)
- Latifa Ibn Ziatenb. 1960MAFrench-Moroccan activist
- Latifab. 1961TNTunisian actress and singer
- Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoumb. 1985AEsheikha of Dubai
- Latifa al-Droubib. 1994SYFirst Lady of Syria since 2025
- Latifa Ouaouactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 72 sources across 47 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 340 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Latifa?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Latifa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Latifa have the most bearers?
- Latifa is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled latifa.
- How common is Latifa compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Latifa is the 67th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Latifa a male or female name?
- Latifa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Latifa mean?
- Recorded meaning: pretty, charming, sweet, kind, friendly; fem.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Latifa” — the 67th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.