Latif

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic latif ‘kind’, ‘gentle’

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

Latif is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 4.5K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.1K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈130,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
287 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LatifLatin(measured from records)
ЛатифCyrillic(measured from records)
লতিফBengali(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

from a personal name based on Arabic latif ‘kind’, ‘gentle’. AlLatlf ‘the Kind’ is an attribute of Allah. This name is found in combinations such as 'Abd-al-LatTf ‘servant of the Kind’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Latif 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 Latif is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#57≈130,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Latif122
ID Indonesia#319≈34,000 est.≈1 in 7.9KlistedLatif149
BD Bangladesh#173≈30,000 est.≈1 in 5.4KlistedLatif66
MY Malaysia#114≈6,400 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Latif75
EG Egypt—≈5,800 est.≈1 in 18K—Latif105
AE United Arab Emirates#186≈2,200 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Latif84
US United States—2,0111 in 165K2.5KLatif287

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. 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)

Latif is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Azerbaijan, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Lətif, Lâtif, Lätif, Làtíf, Lätïf

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Lat̤īf, Lâtif, Latîf, Laṭīf, Lätif

  • French surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Làtif, Lãtîf, Látif, Làtįf, Làtïf

  • Albanian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Láťíf

  • Bulgarian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, India, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian

    Also written Латиф, Lätif

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Lãtïf, Ľåťīf

50 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Latif 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, gentle, kind

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, dainty

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In German, männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs; gekürzte Form von Abd-el-Latif (arab. ‘abd »Diener« + arab. al latif »der Gütige, Sanft­ mütige«, einer der Beinamen Allahs: »Diener [Gottes,] des Gütigen«). Türk. Form: Latif.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • mysterious; delicate;

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • gentle

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili 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)

19201940196019802000Idris Hasan Latif, b. 1923Bilkees I. Latif, b. 1931Mona Latif-Ghattas, b. 1946Mojib Latif, b. 1954Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif, b. 1983Razif Abdul Latif, b. 1985Shazad Latif, b. 1988Arif Abdul Latif, b. 1989Najwa Latif, b. 1995Alessandro Latif, b. 1996

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(measured from records)

Attested in 84 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Latif
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.5K#11,856
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#14,768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,594

Reference works 10

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Latif come from?
from a personal name based on Arabic latif ‘kind’, ‘gentle’. AlLatlf ‘the Kind’ is an attribute of Allah. This name is found in combinations such as 'Abd-al-LatTf ‘servant of the Kind’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Latif mean?
Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic latif ‘kind’, ‘gentle’.
What are other forms of the name Latif?
In the etymology graph, Letîf is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Latif have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Latif in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled latif.
How common is the name Latif?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,011 people named Latif in 2010, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
How common is Latif compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Latif is the 57th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Latif” — the 57th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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