Latë
surname · Latin script
Latë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 9th-century coinage. This is one of the group of girls’ names taken from the vocabulary of gemstones.
- LVLatvia1 in 376K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 929K
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 376K (inferred from the name graph)
6 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Late in IT Italy.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)9th-century coinage. This is one of the group of girls’ names taken from the vocabulary of gemstones. Coral is a pink calcareous material found in warm seas; it actually consists of the skeletons of millions of tiny sea creatures. The word is from Late Latin corallium and is probably ultimately of Semitic origin. Coralie ° Apparently an elaboration of )Cora or Coral on the model of jRosalie.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Latë counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 6 | 1 in 929K | 30 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 5 | 1 in 376K | 5 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Late | 6 |
| US United States | — | — | 228 | — | 4 |
6 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Latë mean, and where does it come from?
- 9th-century coinage. This is one of the group of girls’ names taken from the vocabulary of gemstones. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 1 other source.
- In which country does Latë have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 6 people named Latë, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Latë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Latë is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 376 thousand people — even though Finland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Latë?
- In Finland, the national register counted 6 people named Latë, about 1 in 929 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lat%C3%ABThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Latë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.