Lateefah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: North Africa: Muslim female name meaning pleasant, gentle
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leɪtɛfə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lateefah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 550K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 53K
- GYGuyana1 in 107K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
North Africa: Muslim female name meaning pleasant, gentle.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lateefah 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | listed | Lateefah | 31 |
| US United States | 605 | 1 in 550K | 601 | Lateefah | 200 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 397K | listed | Lateefah | 37 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Lateefah | 17 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | Lateefah | 5 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Lateefah | 14 |
| LY Libya | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 374K | — | Lateefah | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | Lateefah | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lateefah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, ‘kind, gentle’; feminine form of Latif.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Gentle, pleasant.
as a nameThe African book of names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Latifa al-Zayyatb. 1923EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian activist and writer (1923–1996)
- Lalla Latifab. 1946MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan royal
- Latifa bint Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1949SAnot in their usual nameMember of the House of Saud
- Latifa Ibn Ziatenb. 1960MAnot in their usual nameFrench-Moroccan activist
- Latifab. 1961TNnot in their usual nameTunisian actress and singer
- Latifa Ahrarb. 1971MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan actress
- Latifa Echakhchb. 1974MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan sculptor and installation artist (born 1974)
- Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoumb. 1985AEnot in their usual namesheikha of Dubai
- Latifa al-Droubib. 1994SYnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of Syria since 2025
- Latifa Ouaounot in their usual nameactress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 601 | #17,966 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 62 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 53 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 26 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lateefah mean, and where does it come from?
- North Africa: Muslim female name meaning pleasant, gentle. Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Lateefah?
- In the etymology graph, Latife, Latifa and Latifah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lateefah?
- A machine transcription gives /leɪtɛfə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lateefah a male or female name?
- Lateefah 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.
- In which country does Lateefah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Lateefah in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lateefah.
- How common is the name Lateefah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 605 people named Lateefah in 2020, about 1 in 550 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lateefahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lateefah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.