Entry № 5767 · Arabic origin

Lateefah Lateefah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lah-TEE-fah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Subtle / gentle (Al-Latif 99 Names)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "subtle / gentle (al-latif 99 names)".

Lateefah is from the Arabic Laṭīfa.

Subtle / gentle (Al-Latif 99 Names) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Lateefah stands.

Lateefah 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.

Lateefahs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Al-Laṭīf / Quran 6:103
Arabic subtle gentle + Al-Laṭīf The Subtle 99 Names of God + Quran 6:103 No vision can grasp Him but His grasp is over all vision He is the Subtle the Aware + Sufi theological heritage
Quran

Names connected to Lateefah.

The number behind Lateefah.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lateefah reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.