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Fathima

Girls' name

Form of Fatima

Fathima has been given to 240 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 17 recorded.

Babies named Fathima, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fathima: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Fatima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fathima means

Fathima is a form of Fatima.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fathima is used in Indian (Muslim), Malayalam and Sinhalese.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fathima → 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, 240 girls were recorded with the name Fathima between 1989 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,253 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 Fathima?

Fathima 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 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fathima 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fathima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fathimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fathima was born before 2009 — so the typical Fathima is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
240
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Choose a decade

2000s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Fathima 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (17)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,253
2006

Spellings of Fathima

Fathima is not the most common spelling — Fatima is, with 81.8% against Fathima's 0.50%.

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 Fathima is used

Across 1910–2025, Fathima was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,239,964 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Fathima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fathima around the world

Where Fathima 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
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    1952–2024
    #4,451
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2016
    #3,204
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fathima 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
#7,253
2006
Peak year
2006
17 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
240
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fathima

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

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Sibling names for Fathima

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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