Latka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from Polish lato ‘summer’ (see Lato), or from a derivative of the verb latac ‘to flutter’, or from latka, a diminutive of lata ‘patch’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɑtkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Latka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 130Kas Латка(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 1.4Mas Латка
- CZCzechia1 in 126K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Latka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
371 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Латка in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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)
nickname from Polish lato ‘summer’ (see Lato), or from a derivative of the verb latac ‘to flutter’, or from latka, a diminutive of lata ‘patch’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Latka 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.
371 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Latka 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 Russian, Stepanko Latka, peasant. 1539.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latvian, cepešpanna, dziļāka panna
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Martin Latkab. 1984CZCzech soccer player
- Nathan Latkab. 1989USauthor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 495 | #46,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 473 | #43,058 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 371 | #55,386 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 117 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 117 | #26,405 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 114 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 114 | #26,562 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 85 | #19,263 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 85 | #8,326 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 21 | #41,522 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 18 | #42,547 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Latka mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Polish lato ‘summer’ (see Lato), or from a derivative of the verb latac ‘to flutter’, or from latka, a diminutive of lata ‘patch’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Latka?
- In the etymology graph, Latke is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Latka?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɑtkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Latka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 371 people named Latka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled latka.
- Where is Latka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Latka is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 126 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Latka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 371 people named Latka in 2010, about 1 in 897 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/latkaThe 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, “Latka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.