Fatma

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Fatima in BR Brazil, BD Bangladesh, ES Spain and 14 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●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Fatma is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name164K records spelled Fatma33 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Austria, Netherlands

  Languages: German, English, Danish

  Also written F'Atma, Fätmä, 'Fatma, Fẳtmẳ, Fâtmä

• French given name134K records spelled Fatma35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Brazil, Spain

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Fàtmà, F'Atma, Fâtmâ, Fàtma, Fatmà

• a separate given name7.6K records spelled Fatma2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Morocco, India, United States

  Also written Fāṭma

• Greek given name6.1K records spelled Fatma3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, Türkiye, Syria, Tanzania

  Also written Φατμά, Fàtmà

• Czech given name2.8K records spelled Fatma8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Czechia, India

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Fẳtmẳ, Fàtmā, Făťmă, Fâťmä, Fàtmá

• Finnish given name2.3K records spelled Fatma8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Türkiye, Syria, India

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Fåtmä, Fàtmà, Fàtmã, Fâtmá, Fätmä

40 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●

Fatma 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 Turkish, 1. Çocuğunu sütten kesen kadın. 2. Hz. Muhammet’in ilk eşi Hz. Hatice’den doğan kızının adı.

  as a word·TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

• In French, Pour les colons qui vivaient au Maghreb, une fatma était une domestique. Dans l’argot de la Légion étrangère, elle était la femme arabe et la femme tout court. Le mot vient de Fâtima (616 ?-633), nom de la fille de Mahomet et de Khadìdja, femme d’Alì et mère de Hasan et de Husayn.

  as a name·2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

• In English, Turkish/Arabic name; from Fatimah

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

• In Arabic, Fatima; used here as a base name

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, Prophet MuHammad’s daughter

  as a name·African 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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 105 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Fatimab. 604SAnot in their usual namedaughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)
• Fatma Sultanb. 1500TROttoman princess, (1500-1570), daughter of Selim I
• Fatma Sultanb. 1607TROttoman princess (1607-1671), daughter of Ahmed I
• Fatma Aliye Topuzb. 1862TRTurkish writer and self-described feminist (1862–1936)
• Fatma Begumb. 1892INIndian actress and director
• Fatma Gadrib. 1907AZAzerbaijani actress
• Fatma Neslişahb. 1921TROttoman noble (1921–2012)
• Fatema Mernissib. 1940MAnot in their usual name1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist
• Sezen Aksub. 1954TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1954)
• Fatma Samourab. 1962SNFIFA Secretary General & former UN official

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 799 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fatma?

We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Fatma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Fatma have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.2 million people bear Fatma in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fatma.

Where is Fatma most common?

Fatma is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 71 people carrying it.

How common is Fatma compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Fatma is the 2nd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Fatma a male or female name?

Fatma 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 Fatma mean?

Recorded meaning: Fatima; daughter of the Prophet Muhammad