Entry № 5768 · Sanskrit origin

Latha Latha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vine / creeper"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "vine / creeper".

Latha is from the Sanskrit Latā.

Vine / creeper — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

लता
Transliteration
Latā
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Latha stands.

Latha 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.

Lathas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kalidasa Lata imagery / Lata Mangeshkar Bharat Ratna 2001
Sanskrit vine creeper climbing-plant + Sanskrit poetic + Kalidasa + Latā-mādhaviyā vine-and-Krishna + Latā-vartula circular-vine iconography + Latha Rajinikanth Tamil actress + Latha Mangeshkar 1929-2022 Nightingale-of-India Bharat Ratna 2001
Hindu + Indian music

Names connected to Latha.

The number behind Latha.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Latha reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.