Lateefah
Lateefah was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 617 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lateefah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lateefah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,804, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
62 babies in 1979, the peak
Lateefah peaked in 1979, when 62 girls were given it, #1,757 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #18,804 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,672 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,512 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,525 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,184 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,098 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,121 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,375 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,582 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,581 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 19 | #4,764 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,437 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,156 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,443 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,788 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,380 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,104 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,303 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,107 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,963 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,757 | 38.6 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,877 | 34.6 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,489 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,761 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,859 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,782 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,556 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,635 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,984 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lateefah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lateefah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lateefah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lateefah, and how old are they?
An estimated 593 Americans named Lateefah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 36 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 605 people named Lateefah (601 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 599 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lateefah born?
The states with the most babies named Lateefah are New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 103 | not ranked | 5.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 34 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lateefah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lateefah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1971 it was given 5.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lateefah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,208 babies since 1880, Lateefah is the second most given (28% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lateefah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lateefah and names like it
- Compare Lateefah and LatifahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLateefah peaked in 1979.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lateefah since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Lateefah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lateefah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.