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Fatoumata

#2,007 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Fatima

Fatoumata has been given to 2,537 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #2,007 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Fatoumata, 2025

1 in 34,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fatoumata: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Fatima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fatoumata means

Fatoumata is a form of Fatima.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fatoumata → 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, 2,537 girls were recorded with the name Fatoumata between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,688 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,178 in 2020 to #2,007 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,482 in 2015 to #2,007 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 Fatoumata?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,900
95 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,007
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,190 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fatoumata 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 24,190 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fatoumata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fatoumatas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fatoumata was born before 2011 — so the typical Fatoumata is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,537
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (826).

Is Fatoumata 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
−319
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+171
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+475
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.5%
Peak was 2024 (121)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,688
2024

Where Fatoumata is used

Across 2016–2025, Fatoumata was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 1,923 girls, against 1 in 8,792 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

052 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 1,923
  2. 2Ohio1 in 7,692
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 8,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 11,111
  5. 5Maryland1 in 20,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 20,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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.

Fatoumata around the world

Where Fatoumata 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
    1997–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2004–2010
    #910
    in 2010
  • France
    1963–2025
    #93
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #746
    in 2024

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

Notable people named Fatoumata

People whose public names include Fatoumata, 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.

Fatoumata in other languages

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

FantaFatmata

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

Fatoumata by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,007
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 171
Best rank ever
#1,688
2024
Peak year
2024
121 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,537
Count in 2025
95

Names similar to Fatoumata

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

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Names with a curve like Fatoumata

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

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Sibling names for Fatoumata

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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