Fatima

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Fatima is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: literally: weaner; daughter of Muhammad and wife of Khalifa Ali, known as Sayyidat-al-Nisa.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 71◐
  • SYSyria1 in 71
  • KWKuwait1 in 73

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

≈1.5M ●

across 6 countries

#74 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
351 ●

18M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 71 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

FatmaLatin · Turkish●11M records
ФатимаCyrillic · Russian●294K records
ปัทมาThai · Thai●63K records
ᲤატიმაGeorgian · Georgian●6.5K records
פאטמאHebrew · Hebrew●45 records
파티마Hangul · Korean●3 records
ΦατιμάGreek · Greek●1 records
ՖաթմաArmenian · Armenian●0 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Fatma in TR Türkiye, IN India, SY Syria and 3 more, Фатима in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, Fatimah in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and ปัทมา in TH Thailand.

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●

literally: weaner; daughter of Muhammad and wife of Khalifa Ali, known as Sayyidat-al-Nisa

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Fatima is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#21,152,15815M rec.1 in 711.2MFatma131
IN India#357943,987527K rec.—169Fatma140
SY Syria#4468,663475K rec.—1Fatma31
BD Bangladesh#68398,5501.4K rec.—805KFatima73
RU Russia#163301,065171K rec.—#84Фатима141
AR Argentina#354293,094146K rec.—124Fatima83
TH Thailand#77177,00190K rec.—#344,952ปัทมา125
MA Morocco#2158,864171K rec.——Fatima150
BR Brazil#144149,310178K rec.1 in 1.4K198KFatima191
MX Mexico#303137,69393K rec.—237Fatima173
MY Malaysia#28113,17241K rec.—6KFatimah61
EG Egypt#22111,28031K rec.—listedFatma130

Roughly 1.2M people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 71). 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●

  • Portuguese3.1M45%
  • Spanish989K14%
  • English669K10%
  • Arabic409K6%
  • French368K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese3,092,16845%
Spanish988,80314%
English668,82610%
Arabic409,1076%
French368,2425%

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◐

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

  • Swahili given name66K records spelled Fatima17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Türkiye, Morocco

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Fatimah, Fátima, Fãtima, Fãtïmą, Fäțïmå

  • a separate given name58K records spelled Fatima12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Fátima, Fāṭima, Fàtima, Fāt̤ima, Fātima

  • Indonesian given name47K records spelled Fatima5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Fátima, Fatima', Fàtima

  • Finnish given name8.1K records spelled Fatima8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Nigeria, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Fátima, Fătïma, Fãtima, Fäťimä, Fatimã

  • Amharic given name3.8K records spelled Fatima6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Morocco, Türkiye, India

    Also written ፋጢማ, ፋቲማ, Fäťímă, Fátima

69 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.

Other recorded senses●

Fatima is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Arabic name, from the root f-ṭ-m ‘to wean’

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Arabic: a woman who abstains or weans child; also daughter of Prophet Mohammed

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • ‘Abstainer (from forbidden things)’, ie. chaste; also ‘weaner’, i.e. one who cares for her children. This was the name of the Prophet's favourite daughter, wife of ‘Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, fourth rightly guided caliph, and mother of Hasan and HUSAYN.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Named after The Prophet's daughter (Sudan and

    as a nameA Handbook of African Names

  • In English, A daughter of the prophet Muhammad, the wife of Ali.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

010203019001950200029 · 1957

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Fatima in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1886–2025
Yearrecords
18861
18892
18911
18941
18952
19031
19041
19051
19101
19122
19152
19161
19173
19181
19191
19204
19212
19223
19234
19243
19255
19264
19272
19284
19298
193013
193111
19329
193312
19347
193519
193610
193711
193816
193913
194013
194112
194212
194314
194422
194516
194612
194724
194816
194910
195014
195111
195224
195314
195421
195515
195617
195729
195814
195921
196016
196122
196216
196314
196422
196523
196621
196715
196811
196913
197012
197110
19722
197310
19748
19757
19764
19774
19785
19794
19807
19814
19826
19832
19847
19852
19876
19884
19896
19901
19911
19924
19935
19944
19956
19966
19978
19985
199910
20005
20019
200210
20035
20045
20053
20066
20079
20089
20099
20109
201111
20126
20134
201412
20159
201610
20174
20187
20193
20206
20217
20223
20233
20243
20253

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 120 years between 1886–2025. 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. 604Fātima bint Mūsā, b. 790Fatima Jinnah, b. 1893Umm Kulthum, b. 1898Nargis, b. 1929Fatema Mernissi, b. 1940Lalla Latifa, b. 1946Fatima Whitbread, b. 1961Fátima Báñez, b. 1967Fatima Sana Shaikh, b. 1992
  • Fatimab. 604SAdaughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)
  • Fātima bint Mūsāb. 790SADaughter of the Seventh Twelver Imam
  • Fatima Jinnahb. 1893PKPakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman (1893–1967)
  • Umm Kulthumb. 1898EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian singer and actress (1904–1975)
  • Nargisb. 1929INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (1929-1981)
  • Fatema Mernissib. 1940MAnot in their usual name1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist
  • Lalla Latifab. 1946MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan royal
  • Fatima Whitbreadb. 1961GBBritish athlete; former javelin thrower
  • Fátima Báñezb. 1967ESSpanish politician
  • Fatima Sana Shaikhb. 1992INIndian film and television actress

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 140 sources across 75 countries.

Official registers attesting Fatima
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—198K#267
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022149K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—149K#228
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—54K#162
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202053K#861
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—51K#91
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202431K#92
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202415K#139
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7.3K#493
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—7.2K#515
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20205.1K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.5K#7,094

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 1,474 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fatima?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Fatima (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Fatima have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.2 million people bear Fatima in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fatma.
Where is Fatima most common?
Fatima is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 71 people carrying it.
How common is Fatima compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Fatima is the 2nd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Fatima a male or female name?
Fatima 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.
What does the name Fatima mean?
Recorded meaning: literally: weaner; daughter of Muhammad and wife of Khalifa Ali, known as Sayyidat-al-Nisa
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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, “Fatima” — the 2nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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