boys:
891 births since 1967
#3698 (19th percentile)
overall:
891 births since 1967
#6848 (11th percentile)
The name Lateef is the #6,848 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 891 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 11.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,698 (19.3% percentile) for all time with 891 births since 1967.
Lateef first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (first recorded for boys in 1967). Birth data for Lateef is available in 52 out of the 56 years between 1967 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Lateef reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #632) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 27 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lateef".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lateef is pronounced as luh-TEEF, which has 2 syllables.
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