Fatima
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: literally: weaner; daughter of Muhammad and wife of Khalifa Ali, known as Sayyidat-al-Nisa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fatima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 73(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 278
- NGNigeria≈1 in 365
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fatima itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #66 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 424 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73 (inferred from the name graph)
1,152,158 named Fatma, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fatma in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, EG Egypt and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
literally: weaner; daughter of Muhammad and wife of Khalifa Ali, known as Sayyidat-al-Nisa
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fatima is read(measured from records)
Fatima is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fatima in Spanish.
- Portuguese17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fatima in Portuguese.
- Arabic13%
literally: weaner; daughter of Muhammad and wife of Khalifa Ali, known as Sayyidat-al-Nisa
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English11%
Arabic: a woman who abstains or weans child; also daughter of Prophet Mohammed
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A daughter of the prophet Muhammad, the wife of Ali.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.6%
Arabic name, from the root f-ṭ-m ‘to wean’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fatima counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #3 | 1,152,158as Fatma | 1 in 71 | 1.2M | Fatma | 150 |
| NG Nigeria | #32 | ≈590,000 est. | ≈1 in 365 | listed | Fatima | 113 |
| MA Morocco | #2 | ≈490,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | — | Fatima | 164 |
| PK Pakistan | #162 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 756 | listed | Fatima | 114 |
| EG Egypt | #28 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 565 | listed | Fatma | 138 |
| BR Brazil | #139 | 149,310 | 1 in 1.4K | 198K | Fatima | 193 |
| SY Syria | #5 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 184 | 1 | Fatma | 36 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #4 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 278 | — | Fatima | 171 |
| KW Kuwait | #9 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 288 | — | Fatma | 92 |
1,152,158 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fatima is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘Abstainer (from forbidden things)’, ie. chaste; also ‘weaner’, i.e. one who cares for her children. This was the name of the Prophet's favourite daughter, wife of ‘Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, fourth rightly guided caliph, and mother of Hasan and HUSAYN.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Named after The Prophet's daughter (Sudan and
as a nameA Handbook of African 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fatimab. 604SAdaughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)
- Fātima bint Mūsāb. 790SADaughter of the Seventh Twelver Imam
- Fatima Jinnahb. 1893PKPakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman (1893–1967)
- Umm Kulthumb. 1898EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian singer and actress (1904–1975)
- Nargisb. 1929INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (1929-1981)
- Fatema Mernissib. 1940MAnot in their usual name1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist
- Lalla Latifab. 1946MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan royal
- Fatima Whitbreadb. 1961GBBritish athlete; former javelin thrower
- Fátima Báñezb. 1967ESSpanish politician
- Fatima Sana Shaikhb. 1992INIndian film and television actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 145 sources across 75 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 198K | #267 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 149K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 149K | #228 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 621 | #228 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 452 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fatima mean, and where does it come from?
- literally: weaner; daughter of Muhammad and wife of Khalifa Ali, known as Sayyidat-al-Nisa Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Fatima have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Fatma, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Fatima a male or female name?
- Fatima 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 are other forms of the name Fatima?
- In the etymology graph, Fatma, Fadime and Fatimah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Fatima?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 149,310 people named Fatima in 2022, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Fatima compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Fatima is the 3rd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fatimaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Fatima” — the 3rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.