Entry № 5752 · Arabic origin

Lateefa Lateefa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lah-TEE-fah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Gentle, kind (Arabic)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "gentle, kind (arabic)".

Lateefa (لطيفة) is the Arabic word for "gentle" or "kind" — feminine of al-Latīf, one of the 99 names of Allah meaning "the Subtle." A widely used Muslim feminine name.

Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum is the Emirati artist princess.

Gentle, kind. One of the 99 names.

The name in its native script.

لطيفة
Transliteration
Laṭīfa
Pronunciation
/ ləˈtiː.fə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lateefa stands.

Lateefa 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.

Lateefas before her.

Real people
Latifa Al Maktoum
Emirati artist princess.
born 1985
In fiction
Lateefa
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Lateefa.

The number behind Lateefa.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lateefa reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.