Latifah
Latifah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,156 among girls’ names; 1,476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Latifah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 33 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Latifah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Latifah?
#14,156 among girls’ names, 2025
Latifah entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,156 in 2025.
300 babies in 1990, the peak
Latifah peaked in 1990, when 300 girls were given it, #700 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,156 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,619 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,556 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,471 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,668 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,460 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,045 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,261 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,709 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,504 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,647 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,817 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,836 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,319 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,781 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,249 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,426 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,057 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,001 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,490 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,899 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,790 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,914 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,349 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,417 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,322 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,913 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,926 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 251 | #801 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 150 | #1,165 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 300 | #700 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 93 | #1,530 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,777 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,271 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,207 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,387 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,036 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,622 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,934 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,270 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,394 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,903 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,126 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,402 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,544 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,297 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Latifah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Latifah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Latifah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Latifah, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,476 Americans ever recorded as Latifah. The median Latifah alive today is 35 years old; half are between 33 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,305 people named Latifah (1,302 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,421 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 121 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 153 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 79 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Latifah born?
The states with the most babies named Latifah are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, with 49% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 172 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| New York | 133 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 104 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 71 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Florida | 67 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 44 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Virginia | 31 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Latifah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Latifah is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1974 it was given 2.6 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 Latifah 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 2,923 babies since 1880, Latifah is the most given (50% 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 Latifah
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 Latifah and names like it
- Compare Latifah and LatifaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLatifah peaked in 1990.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Latifah since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Latifah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Latifah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.