Fatime

Girls' name

Form of Fatima

Fatime has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1995, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Fatime, 2015

1 in 617,000

Fatime over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fatime: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Fatima

Arabic

What Fatime means

Fatime is a form of Fatima.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fatime is used in Albanian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Fatime is used in Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Fatime comes through Arabic فَاطِمَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fatima.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Fatime is pronounced /faˈtimɛ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 81 girls were recorded with the name Fatime between 1976 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1995; its best national rank was #8,464 in 1976.

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 Fatime?

Fatime had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 617,000; 6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only: 1 in 297,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 427,624 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Fatime 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fatime. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fatimes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fatime was born before 1999 — so the typical Fatime is around 26 today.

Median birth year: 1999; About 26 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 66.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 81; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Fatime 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 1995 (7)
Years since peak: 30; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,464; 1976

Spellings of Fatime

Fatime is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 70.5% against Fatime's 0.02%.

Katie70.5%241,285
Jaime14.6%50,067
Fatima11.4%38,945
Fatimah1.1%3,700
Karime0.75%2,581
Aime0.54%1,850
Catie0.30%1,033
Fatema0.26%903

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.

Fatime around the world

Where Fatime 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.

France
1967–2025
#4,251
in 2025
Canada
2011–2011
#2,838
in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fatime 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: #8,464; 1976
Peak year: 1995; 7 that year
First recorded: 1976
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 81
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Fatime

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

Fatiha Fatouma Halime Faten Fathia Fatuma Fatmata Fatim Fatisha Fatin Fatimatou Fatema Fatmah Fatumata Fatmeh Fatina Fatemah Fatemeh Fatme Jasime Fatimata Maxime Carime Fatma

Sibling names for Fatime

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

For a sister

Salena Corrina Darby Alexandrea Iman Breonna Berenice Alex

For a brother

Hernan Rashawn Travon Madison Austen Deonte Denton Austyn

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