Fatu

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Fatou in US United States, SN Senegal and ফাত in BD Bangladesh.

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●

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◐

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

• English given name5.3K records spelled Fatu6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Tanzania, Nigeria

  Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

  Also written Fatú, Fàtù, Fătu

• a separate given name4.4K records spelled Fatu2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia

  Also written Fătu

• Spanish given name2.4K records spelled Fatu10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Portugal

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Fatú, Fatü, Fatù, Fátû, Fătu

• Turkish given name478 records spelled Fatu5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Syria, United States

  Also written Fatü, Fàtü, Fåtü

• Arabic given name333 records spelled Fatu7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Egypt, Syria, United States, India

  Also written Fâtù, Fàtù, Fātu, Fàtü, Fătu

43 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●

Fatu 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 poz-pol-pro, stone

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Samoan, make something up, assemble something with the hands

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In ang, nominative/accusative plural of fæt

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In vo, predicative singular of fat

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, ablative singular of fātus

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 88 years between 1911–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Fatu Feu'ub. 1946WSSamoan artist, painter and lithographer (born 1946)
• Fatu Gayflorb. 1966LRLiberian musician

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 · 195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fatu?

We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Fatu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Fatu have the most bearers?

Fatu is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled fatu.

Where is Fatu most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fatu is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

Is Fatu a male or female name?

Fatu 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 Fatu mean?

Recorded meaning: short form used from Fatma