Lata (लता) is the Sanskrit word for "creeper, vine" — also poetically used for a delicate, slender woman. Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022) — the "Nightingale of India" — recorded songs in over 36 Indian languages and is widely considered the most prolific playback singer in human history. Bharat Ratna (1999) — India's highest civilian honor. Her sister Asha Bhosle is the only playback singer who can rival her in scope.
Lata does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lata reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.