Latimer

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.

• English:/ˈlætɪmə/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Latimer is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Látimer

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Latimer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, ‘interpreter’, lit. a speaker of Latin; from Latinarius/latim(m)ier; first attested Hugo Latinarius, Interpres / Hugolinus Interpres 1086 DB (Ha)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, occupational name for a Latinist, a clerk who wrote documents in Latin, from Anglo-Norman French latinier, latim(m)ier. Latin was more or less the universal language of official documents in the Middle Ages, displaced only gradually by the vernacular—in England, by Anglo-Norman French at first, and eventually by English.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, Synonym of interpreter.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, Hugh, English Protestant bishop;

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Irish, A name derived from the Latin Latinarius, which came to Ireland, mainly from Scotland, in the seventeenth century and has since been fairly numerous in Cos. Monaghan and Cavan

  as a name·The Surnames of Ireland

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Hugh Latimerb. 1485GBEnglish bishop (circa 1485-1555)
• Lewis Howard Latimerb. 1848USAmerican inventor (1848–1928)
• Andrew Latimerb. 1947GBEnglish musician

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).

27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Latimer mean, and where does it come from?

Writer or keeper of Latin documents; from Anglo-Norman latinier 'Latinist'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How do you pronounce Latimer?

In English /ˈlætɪmə/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Latimer?

In the United States, the national register counted about 9.7 thousand people named Latimer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled latimer. After it come Pakistan, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Latimer?

In the United States, the national register counted 9,733 people named Latimer in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.