Fatimah

What Fatimah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Fatimah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #329 vs #2,064 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Fatimah?

US: Steady: #1894 in 2015, #2064 now. England & Wales: Steady: #334 in 2015, #329 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 129 girls got the name (#1616 that year). First in the US records in 1959.

How common

• About 1 in 17,662 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,933 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,988 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MI (0.2 per 1,000 girls), IL (0.18 per 1,000 girls), OH (0.11 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Fatimah is #2064 in the US and #329 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Fatimah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Fatima931 US · 598 E&W
• Fatema18 US · 21 E&W
• Fatuma21 US
• Faatimah0 US · 8 E&W
• Fotima7 US
• Faatima0 US · 7 E&W
• Fatemah0 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Fatimah

Girls

• Raelynn#116Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #116 vs #2,440 in 2025
• Cora#113“maiden”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Collins#241“descendant of Coileán”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*

For a brother

• Lennox#289Editor’s note Used for both: 75% of US babies named Lennox in 2025 were boys
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Jensen#282Editor’s note Up from #395 in 2015 to #282 in 2025 in the US
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Fatimah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.