Lâtif

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lâtif is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. Hoş, narin, şirin.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 7.9K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 15K
  • DKDenmark1 in 25K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,011 people, 2010

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Latif in US United States, IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

1. Hoş, narin, şirin. 2. Yumuşak, nazik. 3. Tanrı adlarındandır

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lâtif counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lâtif is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,0111 in 165K2.5KLatif52
ES Spain5301 in 94K530—1
NO Norway3601 in 15K360—8
DK Denmark2311 in 25K231——
IN India2041 in 6.5M204Latif16
GY Guyana951 in 7.9K95——
FI Finland751 in 74K83—2

2,011 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lâtif is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu surname92 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Urdu, English, Hindi

    Also written Latif, Lateef, Латиф, Лятиф, Latief

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Lat̤īf, Latîf, Laṭīf, Latif, Lätif

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United Kingdom, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Latif, Ľàťìf

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lâtif under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lâtif mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. Hoş, narin, şirin.
Is Lâtif a male or female name?
Lâtif is a male 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.
In which country does Lâtif have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Lâtif, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled latif.
Where is Lâtif most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lâtif is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 7.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lâtif?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,011 people named Lâtif in 2010, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Lâtif”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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