Latife
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫat̪ife/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Latife is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic لَطِيفَة (laṭīfa, “the delicate, graceful, gentle, friendly”).
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 11K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 6.7K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Arabic لَطِيفَة (laṭīfa, “the delicate, graceful, gentle, friendly”).
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Latife 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #547 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Latife | 46 |
| AF Afghanistan | #205 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Latife | 3 |
| SY Syria | #741 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Latife | 7 |
| RW Rwanda | #825 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Latife | 1 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Latife | 5 |
| CY Cyprus | #648 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Latife | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 150 | 1 in 1.4M | 194 | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 394 | — | 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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Latife Uşşakîb. 1898TRWife of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and First Lady of Turkey (1898-1975)
- 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
- Latife Tekinb. 1957TRTurkish writer (born 1957)
- Latifa Ibn Ziatenb. 1960MAnot in their usual nameFrench-Moroccan activist
- Latifab. 1961TNnot in their usual nameTunisian actress and singer
- 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 40 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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
- What does the name Latife mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic لَطِيفَة (laṭīfa, “the delicate, graceful, gentle, friendly”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Latife?
- In the etymology graph, Latifa, Latifah and Lateefah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Latife?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫat̪ife/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Latife a male or female name?
- Latife 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 Latife have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Latife in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled latife.
- How common is the name Latife?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 150 people named Latife in 2022, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Latife compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Latife is the 547th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Latife?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/latifeThe 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, “Latife” — the 547th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.