Given name & surname
Latimer
“one who serves as an interpreter”
Latimer is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who serves as an interpreter.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who serves as an interpreter.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Latimer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 30 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 7 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 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 118 as a first name in 2020; 9,297 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.
Latimer’s family of names
In English usage, Latimer as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with LATINER. Latimer has a related form in Latimor. Latimer has a related form in Latimore.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Latimer
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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