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Fatimah

#2,070 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Fatima

Fatimah has been given to 3,700 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #2,070 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Fatimah, 2025

1 in 36,400

Fatimah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fatimah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Fatima

Arabic

What Fatimah means

Fatimah is a alternate transcription of Fatima.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Fatimah is used in Indonesian and Malay. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fatima.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Fatimah is pronounced /faˈtimah/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,700 girls were recorded with the name Fatimah between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,588 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,618 in 2020 to #2,070 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,899 in 2015 to #2,070 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fatimah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,400
91 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,070
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,253 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fatimah 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fatimah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fatimahs were born

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

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,700
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (1,019).

Is Fatimah 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
+245
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−452
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−171
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.5%
Peak was 2020 (129)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,588
1982

Spellings of Fatimah

Fatimah is not the most common spelling — Fatima is, with 79.0% against Fatimah's 7.5%.

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 Fatimah is used

Across 2016–2025, Fatimah was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 13,893 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 50,000).

221 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 4,762
  2. 2Michigan1 in 6,250
  3. 3Illinois1 in 7,692
  4. 4Maryland1 in 7,692
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7Georgia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 20,000

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.

Fatimah around the world

Where Fatimah 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
    #329
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #359
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    2009–2025
    #2,083
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #870
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Fatimah

People whose public names include Fatimah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fatimah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Fatimah. Linked forms have their own page here.

FatimaFatemehFátimaFatinahFatma / Fāṭima / Fatema

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Fatimah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,070
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 452
Best rank ever
#1,588
1982
Peak year
2020
129 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,700
Count in 2025
91

Names similar to Fatimah

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

FatemahFatoumataFatemaFatmataFatumaFatouNaimahFatmaNaeemahFatimaHalimahJemimahFatimataFatihaFatmahFatumataSalimahFathimaEmmahKareemahKarimahFatinaFatenFatouma

Names with a curve like Fatimah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fatimah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NechamaRochelYaelChavaYochevedAvivaDevorahLaineNikaElishevaCassiaTova

Sibling names for Fatimah

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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