Fatimata
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fatimata is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mauritania it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name from Arabic, widely used in Islamic West Africa.
- FRFrance1 in 37K◐
- USUnited States1 in 632K
- SNSenegal1 in 863
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.6K ●
- Sources
- 167 ●
- 1 in 37K ◐
across 8 countries
8.4K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
a female given name from Arabic, widely used in Islamic West Africa
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 1,830 | 6.1K rec. | 1 in 37K | 1.8K | Fatimata | 167 |
| SN Senegal | #72 | 780 | 251 rec. | — | 32 | Fatimata | 27 |
| US United States | — | 526 | 974 rec. | 1 in 632K | 526 | Fatimata | 73 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #127 | 236 | 244 rec. | — | — | Fatimata | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 201△ | 51 rec. | 1 in 249K | 201 | Fatimata | 12 |
| BE Belgium | — | 178 | 143 rec. | — | 5 | Fatimata | 19 |
| MR Mauritania | #18 | 98 | 96 rec. | — | — | Fatimata | 11 |
| ML Mali | #106 | 76 | 71 rec. | — | 3 | Fatimata | 16 |
| GH Ghana | — | 48 | 23 rec. | — | — | Fatimata | 7 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 44 | 49 rec. | — | 422 | Fatimata | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 44 | 47 rec. | — | — | Fatimata | 14 |
| IT Italy | — | 43 | 44 rec. | — | 6 | Fatimata | 6 |
Roughly 1.8K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 37K). 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●
- French15K81%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)1K6%
- English7654%
- Spanish5333%
- Catalan2011%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 15,106 | 81% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 1,048 | 6% |
| English | 765 | 4% |
| Spanish | 533 | 3% |
| Catalan | 201 | 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●
Fatimata 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.
In English, West African form of Fatimah
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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 |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 16 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 12 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1996–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Fatimata Mounkaïlab. 1944NENigerien academic
- Hadja Fatimata Ouattarab. 1950BFBurkinabe politician
- Fatimata Seye Syllab. 1950SNSenegalese politician
- Fatimata Touréb. 1956MLMalian activist
- Fatimata Amyb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Fatimata M’bayeb. 1957MRjudge in Mauritania
- Fatimat Olufunke Raji-Rasakib. 1957NGnot in their usual nameNigerian politician
- Fati Marikob. 1964NEnot in their usual nameNigerien singer
- Fatimata Dia Sowb. 1967SNpolitician
- Fatimata Diassob. 1990CIIvorian Paralympic athlete
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 27 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.8K | #686 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 526 | #19,838 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 422 | #1,152 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 201 | #9,016 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 160 | #4,833 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 32 | #40 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 13 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 64 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fatimata?
- We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Fatimata (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fatimata have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.8 thousand people bear Fatimata in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fatimata.
- How common is Fatimata compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Fatimata is the 18th most common given name of 559 given names recorded there.
- Is Fatimata a male or female name?
- Fatimata 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 Fatimata mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name from Arabic, widely used in Islamic West Africa
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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, “Fatimata” — the 18th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.