Latika
Latin at root, meaning a small creeper or climbing vine. It stays rare in Poland: around 90 women carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Latika Pronunciation
Latika is pronounced lah-TEE-kah (/laˈtika/).
What Latika means
Where Latika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Latika comes from Latin, and its meaning is plain: a small creeper, a vine. The word names something that climbs, a thin stem that finds a wall or a trellis and holds on. A vine is small first. That literal sense sits under the name and does not leave it.
The name carries no diminutives and no fixed imieniny in the Polish calendar. It arrives without a saint attached, without a shorter form to fall back on. A teacher reading it from a class register meets it fresh, three syllables with nothing to trim.
What a vine does is reach toward light and hold to a surface. The Polish reading keeps both halves, pnącze and winorośl, the climbing plant and the grapevine that people cultivate. The meaning stays close to the hand. Latika means the small vine, and the Polish word is pnącze.
When Latika celebrates name day
Latika appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 30 August.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Latika
1 in 250487 women in Poland is named Latika. 90 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3703 among female names.
Latika's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1655 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.
Where Latika is most popular
Latika is most popular in West Pomeranian, 2460% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+2460%
Latika as a middle name
Latika is a first name for 90 women in Poland and a middle name for another 27, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1375th, between Krystina (27) and Maree (27).
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#1373 Gosia27
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#1374 Krystina27
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#1375 Latika27
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#1376 Maree27
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#1377 Mariela27