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Fatimatou

#15,661 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Fatima

Fatimatou has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #15,661 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Fatimatou, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fatimatou: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Fatima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fatimatou means

Fatimatou is a form of Fatima.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fatimatou is used in Western African.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fatimatou → 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, 72 girls were recorded with the name Fatimatou between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2006; its best national rank was #12,673 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,889 in 2020 to #15,661 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,460 in 2015 to #15,661 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 Fatimatou?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,661
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fatimatou 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fatimatou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fatimatous were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fatimatou was born before 2017 — so the typical Fatimatou is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Fatimatou 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
−1,639
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+228
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,201
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2006 (8)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,673
2022

Where Fatimatou is used

Across 1910–2025, Fatimatou was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Fatimatou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fatimatou around the world

Where Fatimatou 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
    2015–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1976–2025
    #2,254
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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.

Fatimatou by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,661
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 228
Best rank ever
#12,673
2022
Peak year
2006
8 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Fatimatou

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

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Sibling names for Fatimatou

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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