Latifa

Where Latifa comes from

Borrowed from Arabic لَطِيفَة (laṭīfa).
— Wiktionary's entry for Latifa
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #5,891 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Peak, #2,486
    38 babies named Latifa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,286.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Latif.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.