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Latin is a name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It is written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Middle English Latyn, Latyne, Latin, from Old French latin, latyn, from Latin latīnus, from Latium (“the region around Rome”) + -īnus (adjective suffix).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 16K◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 62K
  • COColombia1 in 12K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

26K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
104 ●

10K records

Official registry-verified

Spellings & scripts●

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Latin: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Latin
  1. Middle EnglishLatyn●
  2. Old Frenchlatin●
  3. Latinlatīnus●

From Middle English Latyn, Latyne, Latin, from Old French latin, latyn, from Latin latīnus, from Latium (“the region around Rome”) + -īnus (adjective suffix). Displaced or merged with Old English Lǣden. Doublet of Ladino.

Sources 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Welsh Surnames
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Where Latin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—929—
AR Argentina—84—
BE Belgium—52—
CH Switzerland—9—
PL Poland—7—
CA Canada—1—
HR Croatia—590—
BR Brazil—51—
SI Slovenia—28—
ES Spain—26—
FR France—11—
IT Italy—1—

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Over time●

051015192019401960198012 · 1951

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Latin in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1901–1991
Yearrecords
19012
19116
19216
19315
194110
195112
19618
19718
19816
199111

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 years between 1901–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Jerry Latin, b. 1953Denis Latin, b. 1966Vladimir Latin, b. 1985Jeff Latin, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Latin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020929#27,480
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000732#30,199
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010639#35,246
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021590#1,147
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021508—
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202189—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—84—
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202179—
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202170—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200852#25,532
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—51#103,379
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202143—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 48 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Latin?
Our records include 26,299 bearers of Latin across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Latin have the most bearers?
Latin is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What does the name Latin mean?
Recorded meaning: From Middle English Latyn, Latyne, Latin, from Old French latin, latyn, from Latin latīnus, from Latium (“the region around Rome”) + -īnus (adjective suffix).
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Latin”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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