Fatimah
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fatimah 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 Malay and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Arabic name of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
- 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 ●
- #74 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 351 ●
- 1 in 71 ◐
across 6 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
18M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
6 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fatima in BR Brazil, BD Bangladesh, ES Spain and 14 more, Fatma in TR Türkiye, IN India, SY Syria and 3 more, Фатима in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan 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●
Arabic name of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 23 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 | #2 | 1,152,158 | 15M rec. | 1 in 71 | 1.2M | Fatma | 131 |
| IN India | #357 | 943,987 | 527K rec. | — | 169 | Fatma | 140 |
| SY Syria | #4 | 468,663 | 475K rec. | — | 1 | Fatma | 31 |
| BD Bangladesh | #68 | 398,550 | 1.4K rec. | — | 805K | Fatima | 73 |
| RU Russia | #163 | 301,065 | 171K rec. | — | #84 | Фатима | 141 |
| AR Argentina | #354 | 293,094 | 146K rec. | — | 124 | Fatima | 83 |
| TH Thailand | #77 | 177,001 | 90K rec. | — | #344,952 | ปัทมา | 125 |
| MA Morocco | #2 | 158,864 | 171K rec. | — | — | Fatima | 150 |
| BR Brazil | #144 | 149,310 | 178K rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 198K | Fatima | 191 |
| MX Mexico | #303 | 137,693 | 93K rec. | — | 237 | Fatima | 173 |
| MY Malaysia | #28 | 113,172 | 41K rec. | — | 6K | Fatimah | 61 |
| EG Egypt | #22 | 111,280 | 31K rec. | — | listed | Fatma | 130 |
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●
- Malay59K28%
- English43K20%
- Indonesian41K19%
- Arabic39K19%
- Swahili3.5K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 59,131 | 28% |
| English | 42,701 | 20% |
| Indonesian | 40,782 | 19% |
| Arabic | 39,093 | 19% |
| Swahili | 3,524 | 2% |
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●
Fatimah 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 Indonesian, A daughter of the prophet Muhammad, the wife of Ali.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Quiet and calm
as a nameThe book of African names
In English, daughter of Muhammad
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Arabic, The Prophet's daughter Fatimah; Tanzanian spellings include Fatima, Fatuma, Fatu, Fatumabai, Fatmabhai.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Suckling,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic 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 |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 9 |
| 1966 | 7 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 14 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 28 |
| 1976 | 32 |
| 1977 | 39 |
| 1978 | 51 |
| 1979 | 50 |
| 1980 | 58 |
| 1981 | 67 |
| 1982 | 74 |
| 1983 | 52 |
| 1984 | 49 |
| 1985 | 39 |
| 1986 | 50 |
| 1987 | 56 |
| 1988 | 49 |
| 1989 | 45 |
| 1990 | 50 |
| 1991 | 42 |
| 1992 | 68 |
| 1993 | 73 |
| 1994 | 51 |
| 1995 | 48 |
| 1996 | 47 |
| 1997 | 49 |
| 1998 | 62 |
| 1999 | 62 |
| 2000 | 70 |
| 2001 | 53 |
| 2002 | 58 |
| 2003 | 76 |
| 2004 | 65 |
| 2005 | 54 |
| 2006 | 56 |
| 2007 | 72 |
| 2008 | 86 |
| 2009 | 72 |
| 2010 | 78 |
| 2011 | 86 |
| 2012 | 99 |
| 2013 | 93 |
| 2014 | 105 |
| 2015 | 107 |
| 2016 | 116 |
| 2017 | 115 |
| 2018 | 111 |
| 2019 | 109 |
| 2020 | 129 |
| 2021 | 98 |
| 2022 | 120 |
| 2023 | 102 |
| 2024 | 80 |
| 2025 | 91 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 65 years between 1959–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Fatimah bint Muhammad al-Taymib. 740IQ8th-century Arab princess and wife of Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur
- Fatima bint al-Ahmarb. 1260ESnot in their usual nameNasrid princess of Granada
- Fatimah Hashimb. 1924MYMalaysian politician (1924-2010)
- Fatimah Busub. 1943MYMalaysian novelist, short story writer, and academic; author of Ombak Bukan Biru.
- Fatimah Abdullahb. 1957MYMalaysian politician
- Fatimah Lateefb. 1966SGSingaporean politician
- Keisha Fatimah Az-Zahrab. 2003IDAzerbaijani badminton player
- Fatimah TaliahUSactress
- Fatimah Hassanactress
- Fatimah JacksonUSbiologist, anthropologist and educator
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 51 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON) | — | 6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.8K | #4,787 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 438 | #3,041 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 384 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 346 | #3,216 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 183 | #3,655 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 91 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 81 | #6,304 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 74 | #1,970 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 63 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 40 | #2,622 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 40 | #2,623 |
Reference works 4
- 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 · 215 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fatimah?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Fatimah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fatimah have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.2 million people bear Fatimah in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fatma.
- Where is Fatimah most common?
- Fatimah is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 71 people carrying it.
- How common is Fatimah compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Fatimah is the 2nd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Fatimah a male or female name?
- Fatimah 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 Fatimah mean?
- Recorded meaning: Arabic name of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
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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, “Fatimah” — the 2nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.