Fatima
About 38,991 American babies have been named Fatima since 1919, most of them around 2006. In 2025 it ranked 330th. About 38,000 Fatimas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Fatima boys named Fatima
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 38,991
- Estimated living today
- 38,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 228th
- Rank in 2025
- 330th
- First recorded
- 1919
- Girls / boys
- 38,945 / 46
How old the living Fatimas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 38,991 babies given the name since 1919, about 38,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 18,000 of them are children and 360 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Fatimas
- Fatima (604–632)daughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)
- Fatima Jinnah (1893–1967)Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman
- Fatima al-Fihriya (800–880)Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque
- Fatima Sana Shaikh (born 1992)Indian film and television actress
- Fatima Whitbread (born 1961)British athlete; former javelin thrower
- Fatima Bhutto (born 1982)Pakistani writer
- Fātima bint Mūsā (790–816)Daughter of the Seventh Twelver Imam
- Fatima Meer (1928–2010)South African academic and writer
People named Fatima with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fatima is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Fatima is most concentrated in California (2.5×), Nevada (2.4×), Texas (1.8×), Arizona (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Fatima peaked:
Fatima elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Fatima +1 spelling | 31,025 | 92nd |
| England and Wales girls | Fatima | 11,710 | 76th |
| Italy girls | Fatima | 7,786 | — |
| Spain girls | Fatima | 7,597 | 83rd |
| Belgium girls | Fatima | 2,398 | 88th |
| Norway girls | Fatima | 1,940 | 121st |
| Switzerland girls | Fatima | 432 | 281st |
| Scotland girls | Fatima | 414 | 157th |
| Ireland girls | Fatima | 386 | 211th |
| Poland girls | Fatima | 210 birth registrations | 292nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Fatima | 16 | 227th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Fatima: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Fatima | 287 | 0.023% | 275th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Fatima | 132 | 0.030% | 169th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Fatima | 12 | 0.018% | 84th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Fatima | 1 | 0.027% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Fatima is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.05% of children were given it – 48 of them.
Fatima: rank by region
In 2025, Fatima was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Fatima | 121 | 48 |
| Wallonia | Fatima | 300 | 9 |
| Brussels | Fatima | 36 | 20 |
In 2014, Fatima was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Fatima | 7 | 10 |
In 2019, Fatima was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Fatima | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Fatima was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Fatima | 180 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Fatima appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (36th), Province of Antwerp (75th), Province of West Flanders (77th), Province of Liège (138th), Province of East Flanders (140th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Fatima by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 211 | 102nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Fatima among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Fatima | 3,252 | 4,004 |
| Finland girls | Fatima | 485 | 673 |
| the Netherlands boys | Fatima | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Fatima lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 54,240 women called Fatima were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Fatima | 992 | 22.911 | 1 |
| Ceuta | Fatima | 763 | 18.421 | 1 |
| Almería | Fatima | 1,993 | 5.283 | 27 |
| Huelva | Fatima | 1,266 | 4.664 | 37 |
| Tarragona | Fatima | 1,889 | 4.321 | 42 |
| Girona | Fatima | 1,740 | 4.202 | 41 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Fatima against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.