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Fadumo

Girls' name

Form of Fatima

Fadumo has been given to 295 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Fadumo, 2020

1 in 477,000

Fadumo over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fadumo: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Fatima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fadumo means

Fadumo is a form of Fatima.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fadumo is used in Somali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fadumo → Fatima. The family’s meaning is “to abstain, to wean”, recorded in the naming reference for Fatima.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fatima.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 295 girls were recorded with the name Fadumo between 1995 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,675 in 2006.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Fadumo?

Fadumo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fadumo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fadumo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fadumos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fadumo was born before 2007 — so the typical Fadumo is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
295
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (131).

Is Fadumo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (19)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,675
2006

Spellings of Fadumo

Fadumo is not the most common spelling — Fatuma is, with 67.0% against Fadumo's 33.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fadumo is used

Across 1910–2025, Fadumo was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 362,359 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fadumo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fadumo around the world

Where Fadumo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • Norway
    1880–2009
    #627
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1996–2000
    #2,489
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fadumo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,675
2006
Peak year
2006
19 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
295
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fadumo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FadumaFadiaFadimaFadilaFadraFadwaFadakFadilahFadeelahFatumoFada

Sibling names for Fadumo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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