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Fatemah

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Fatima

Fatemah has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 2010, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Fatemah, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fatemah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Fatima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fatemah means

Fatemah is a alternate transcription of Fatima.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fatemah is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfaː.tˤi.ma/ for Fatemah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fatemah → 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, 168 girls were recorded with the name Fatemah between 1980 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2010; its best national rank was #7,605 in 1984.

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 Fatemah?

Fatemah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fatemah 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fatemah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fatemahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fatemah was born before 1997 — so the typical Fatemah is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
168
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Fatemah 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (11)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,605
1984

Spellings of Fatemah

Fatemah is not the most common spelling — Fatima is, with 85.0% against Fatemah's 0.37%.

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.

Fatemah around the world

Where Fatemah 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fatemah 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
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Best rank ever
#7,605
1984
Peak year
2010
11 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
168
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fatemah

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

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Sibling names for Fatemah

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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