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Fatema

#6,398 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Fatima

Fatema has been given to 903 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #6,398 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Fatema, 2025

1 in 184,000

Fatema over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fatema: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Fatima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fatema means

Fatema is a alternate transcription of Fatima.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fatema → 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, 903 girls were recorded with the name Fatema between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,252 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,726 in 2020 to #6,398 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,175 in 2015 to #6,398 in 2025.

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 Fatema?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,398
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fatema 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 2025 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fatema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fatemas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fatema was born before 2004 — so the typical Fatema is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
903
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2000s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Fatema 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
−158
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+328
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,223
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.1%
Peak was 2023 (31)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,252
1995

Spellings of Fatema

Fatema is not the most common spelling — Fatima is, with 84.0% against Fatema's 1.9%.

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 Fatema is used

Across 1910–2025, Fatema was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 387,360 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Fatema has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fatema around the world

Where Fatema 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
    1996–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • France
    1949–2025
    #3,595
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fatema by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,398
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 328
Best rank ever
#4,252
1995
Peak year
2023
31 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
903
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Fatema

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

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Sibling names for Fatema

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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