Latifah

Where Latifah comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Latifah.

Latifah through the years
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #6,900 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Around this time: All Hail the Queen by Queen Latifah
    Album, 1989 · Source
  3. 1990
    Peak, #701
    300 babies named Latifah, the most in any year.
  4. 1991
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,167.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Latifah in Wikidata.

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. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.