Latifah

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births

Peak · girls
1990 · 300 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,476
since 1974

Latifah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Latifah has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201974peak #701, 1990girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#13,2086
2024#15,2935
2023—
2022#13,5926
2021#13,4646
2020#11,0908
2019#9,11211
2018#15,6825
2017#11,6158
2016#12,8767
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2014#10,9559
2013#11,9698
2012#11,2579
2011#12,1538
2010#13,4487
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2007#13,9247
2006#15,1526
2005#10,9219
2004#7,82814
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2002#12,1877
2001#6,32217
2000#4,79124
1999#5,66118
1998#6,71914
1997#6,16315
1996#5,28018
1995#3,28534
1994#1,90574
1993#1,92273
1992#802251
1991#1,167150
1990#701300
1989#1,53293
1988#8,3918
1987#5,61313
1986#4,18619
1985#5,07714
1984#5,22213
1983#3,94919
1982#4,52716
1981#3,85920
1980#3,21526
1979#3,33324
1978#2,85928
1977#3,08325
1976#5,21511
1975#7,9846
1974#6,9007
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five girls were named Latifah! It came in at #6,900, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2003, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Latifah is popular in 1974

No state had 5 or more girls named Latifah in 1974, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Latifah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 2,085 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #13,208)
  • 2,118 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #13,208)
  • Biggest jump: 831 spots in 1990 (#1,532 → #701)
  • Biggest drop: 1,120 spots in 1993 (#802 → #1,922)
Rise & fade · girls
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 1990 at #701 (300 births)
  • Births halved by 1991, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1990–1992
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,328
  • Highest: 1 in 6,328 girls born in 1990 were named Latifah (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 64.2% of all girls named Latifah (947) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s101#2,859 (1978)#4,896
1980s241#1,532 (1989)#4,557
1990s947#701 (1990)#3,361
2000s84#4,791 (2000)#10,161
2010s72#9,112 (2019)#12,119
2020s31#11,090 (2020)#13,329

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Latifah in 1974

girls
#6,900
7 births · 1 in 209,648 girls

Top girls' names in 1974

  1. #1Jennifer63,107
  2. #2Amy29,566
  3. #3Michelle25,826
  4. #4Heather23,179
  5. #5Angela22,803
  6. #6Kimberly22,427
  7. #7Melissa22,166
  8. #8Lisa19,778
  9. #9Stephanie16,984
  10. #10Rebecca15,163
  11. #6,900Latifah7
More about 1974

girls

1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 209,648 of them was named Latifah, which outranked 32.7% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Latifah
  1. #6,258Yvonnie8
  2. #6,258Zera8
  3. #6,258Zeta8
  4. #6,900Latifah7
  5. #6,900Abelina7
  6. #6,900Adi7
  7. #6,900Adonia7
  8. #7,680Abigayle6
  9. #7,680Abraham6
  10. #7,680Acquanetta6

Tied with 779 names at #6,900; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,440Nakia#6,666 → #226
  2. ↑ 5,329Nikia#6,080 → #751
  3. ↑ 1,994Luciana#2,914 → #920
  4. ↑ 1,556Cortney#2,349 → #793
  5. ↑ 1,213Nia#1,885 → #672
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,251Contina#962 → #2,213
  2. ↓ 396Pam#990 → #1,386
  3. ↓ 376Tracee#536 → #912
  4. ↓ 364Cher#760 → #1,124
  5. ↓ 314Richard#904 → #1,218

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1974 →