Name Awesome

Fatih

Boys' name

To open, to conquer, through فَاتِح

Fatih has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2012, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Fatih, 2024

1 in 478,000

Fatih over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fatih: meaning, origin, and history

To open, to conquer, through فَاتِح

Arabic

What Fatih means

Fatih belongs to the name family reached through Fatih → فَاتِح. Its meaning is “to open, to conquer”.

Origin, language, and formation

Fatih is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Fatih comes through Ottoman Turkish فاتح and Arabic فَاتِح.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include فَاتِح.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Fatih is pronounced /faːˈtih/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 114 boys were recorded with the name Fatih between 1993 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2012; its best national rank was #7,198 in 2012.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fatih?

Fatih had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fatih sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fatih. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fatihs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fatih was born before 2013 — so the typical Fatih is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
114
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Fatih 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 2012 (11)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,198
2012

Spellings of Fatih

Fatih is not the most common spelling — Faris is, with 26.1% against Fatih's 0.92%.

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.

Fatih around the world

Where Fatih 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
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • France
    1965–2025
    #2,521
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2013
    #2,635
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1979–1995
    #533
    in 1995

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.

Fatih by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,198
2012
Peak year
2012
11 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
114
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fatih

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

FatehFathiKetihFatimaFatinFatmirFateenFatehveerFateFataiFatehbir

Sibling names for Fatih

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

Explore around Fatih

Top names of 2012, Fatih's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 2012Boys' names starting with F