Fatih
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fatih is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. Fetheden, zafer kazanan.
- TRTürkiye1 in 319◐
- BEBelgium1 in 6.9K
- NLNetherlands1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈262K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 159 ●
- 1 in 319 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
1.1M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
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●
1. Fetheden, zafer kazanan. 2. Açan, kapılar açan. 3. Osmanlı Padişahı II. Mehmet'in lakabı.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #39 | 257,098 | 1.1M rec. | 1 in 319 | 257K | Fatih | 151 |
| BE Belgium | #816 | 2,256 | 2.2K rec. | — | 11 | Fatih | 39 |
| SY Syria | — | 2,233 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Fatih | 7 |
| FR France | — | 2,085△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 33K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,416 | 2.9K rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Fatih | 63 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,200 | 460 rec. | — | — | Fatih | 56 |
| US United States | — | 678 | 2K rec. | 1 in 491K | 678 | Fatih | 159 |
| CY Cyprus | #392 | 675 | 808 rec. | — | — | Fatih | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | #974 | 603 | 542 rec. | — | 3 | Fatih | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 376 | 216 rec. | 1 in 27K | 376 | Fatih | 30 |
| DK Denmark | — | 299 | — | 1 in 20K | 299 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | 262 | 258 rec. | — | — | Fatih | 25 |
Roughly 257K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 319). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish1.1M75%
- Kurdish257K18%
- German32K2%
- French21K1%
- English10K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 1,091,617 | 75% |
| Kurdish | 257,252 | 18% |
| German | 32,308 | 2% |
| French | 21,305 | 1% |
| English | 10,396 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Fatih is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Conquistador
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Arabic, conqueror, victor, originator. 4s cal, ovettall "You (Allah) are the best of those who make decision." (surat al-A at 7:89). Muhammad II Fatih: king of Anatolia (1444-51)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, one who eases difficulties, conquerer
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1988 | 1 |
| 1990 | 3 |
| 1991 | 2 |
| 1992 | 4 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| 1994 | 1 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 14 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 13 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 13 |
| 2013 | 16 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 17 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 12 |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 8 |
AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 36 years between 1988–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Fatih Terimb. 1953TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1953)
- Fatih Birolb. 1958TRTurkish economist and energy expert
- Fatih Altaylıb. 1962TRTurkish journalist (born 1962)
- Fatih Dönmezb. 1965TRTurkish statesperson (born 1965)
- Fatih Portakalb. 1967TRTurkish journalist (born 1967)
- Fatih Akınb. 1973DEGerman filmmaker (born 1973)
- Fatih Akyelb. 1977TRTurkish association football player (born 1977)
- Fatih Tekkeb. 1977TRTurkish association football player (born 1977)
- Fatih Erbakanb. 1979TRTurkish politician
- Fatih Aksoyb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
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 57 sources across 34 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 278 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fatih?
- We estimate roughly 262 thousand people bear Fatih (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fatih have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 257 thousand people bear Fatih in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fatih.
- Where is Fatih most common?
- Fatih is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 319 people carrying it.
- How common is Fatih compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Fatih is the 39th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Fatih a male or female name?
- Fatih is a male 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.
- What does the name Fatih mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Fetheden, zafer kazanan.
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About this data
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, “Fatih” — the 39th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.