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Fatma

#9,048 in 2025Girls' name

From Arabic فَاطِمَة; literal meaning unconfirmed

Fatma has been given to 835 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #9,048 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Fatma, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fatma: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic فَاطِمَة; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Fatma means

Fatma is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Fatma is used in Swahili and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Fatma comes through Arabic فَاطِمَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 835 girls were recorded with the name Fatma between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2014; its best national rank was #3,807 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,325 in 2020 to #9,048 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,716 in 2015 to #9,048 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 Fatma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,048
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fatma 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fatma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fatmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fatma was born before 2006 — so the typical Fatma is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
835
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (259).

Is Fatma 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
+734
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,723
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,332
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.4%
Peak was 2014 (35)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,807
2001

Spellings of Fatma

Fatma is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 57.8% against Fatma's 0.29%.

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 Fatma is used

Across 1910–2025, Fatma was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 639,063 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Fatma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fatma around the world

Where Fatma 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
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1993–2015
    #653
    in 2015
  • France
    1919–2025
    #615
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2017
    #554
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Fatma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,048
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,723
Best rank ever
#3,807
2001
Peak year
2014
35 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
835
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Fatma

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

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Sibling names for Fatma

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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