Given name & surname
Latif
“one who is kind and gentle”
Latif is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is kind and gentle.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is kind and gentle.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Latif through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 411
- 411 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 12 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 700 as a first name in 2020; 2,524 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Latif’s family of names
Latif has a related form in Lateef. Latif has a related form in Lateaf. Latif has a related form in Lateif.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Latif
- Latif BlessingGhanaian association football playerborn 1996
- Latif KhosaPakistani lawyer and politician (born 1946)
- Latif al-AniArtist1932–2021
- Latif YalınlıTurkish association football player (1906–1965)
- Latif Nassif Jassimformer Iraqi minister1941–2021
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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