Fatema

given name · Bangla · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fatema is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 70◐
  • SYSyria1 in 17K
  • INIndia1 in 38K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.1K ●

across 7 countries

#635 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
137 ●

68K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 10K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Fatema is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#44,038,6485.3K rec.—805KFatema84
IN India—84,63247K rec.—17Fatema93
US United States—2,5797.4K rec.1 in 129K2.6KFatema137
SY Syria—1,9332K rec.——Fatema9
GB United Kingdom—1,7361K rec.—listedFatema70
SE Sweden—1,004△117 rec.1 in 10K1KFatema11
TR Türkiye—9861K rec.——Fatema8
AU Australia—918919 rec.—1Fatema63
AF Afghanistan#153748892 rec.——Fatema10
CA Canada—659382 rec.—1Fatema39
DE Germany—469413 rec.—1Fatema59
DK Denmark—227—1 in 26K227——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bangla2.5M58%
  • English1.6M38%
  • Hindi50K1%
  • Arabic46K1%
  • Turkish6.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla2,458,81358%
English1,619,17238%
Hindi50,0861%
Arabic45,8521%
Turkish6,0821%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Fatema is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6.0K records spelled Fatema21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Brazil, United States, Syria

    Languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Fatéma, Fäťęmà, Fátema, Fãțëmà, Fàtémà

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Fatema2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Morocco, Ethiopia

    Also written Fatéma

  • Danish given name1.4K records spelled Fatema6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, India, Syria

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Fatéma

  • Indonesian given name1.2K records spelled Fatema4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Syria, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Fatéma, Fãtêmå

  • Thai given name814 records spelled Fatema3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, Syria, United States

    Also written ฟาเตมา

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

010020030019201940196019802000263 · 1991

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Fatema in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1917–2016
Yearrecords
19172
19183
19194
19207
19214
19225
192314
19247
19253
19268
19277
19284
19296
19308
193110
19328
193313
19349
193522
193620
193727
193828
193924
194026
194120
194234
194336
194431
194543
194636
194751
194840
194940
195044
195157
195247
195361
195454
195566
195664
195761
195872
195983
196072
196192
196287
1963105
196492
196599
196689
1967121
1968118
196977
197098
1971101
1972113
1973121
1974114
1975153
1976123
1977129
1978177
1979154
1980189
1981199
1982193
1983198
1984180
1985210
1986192
1987199
1988199
1989225
1990223
1991263
1992251
1993260
1994235
1995184
1996128
1997115
199849
19992
200814
20093
201014
201117
201212
201316
20149
201522
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1917–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Fatima, b. 604Cheikha Tetma, b. 1891Fatema Mernissi, b. 1940Fatema Chebchoub, b. 1952

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 53 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Fatema
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BD BangladeshThis page lists the most common names in Bangladesh, published on WorldNames.2023805K#6
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.6K#6,243
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1K#1,691
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020851—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—596#2,237
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020347#62,349
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—227#949
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—210#3,372
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—159#10,832
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010140#123,064
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—134#5,514
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—67—

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 313 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fatema?
We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Fatema (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Fatema have the most bearers?
Fatema is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled fatema.
How common is Fatema compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Fatema is the 4th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Fatema a male or female name?
Fatema is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fatema” — the 4th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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