Fati
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Fatou Mata
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fati is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 309(inferred from the name graph)
- GEGeorgia≈1 in 3.2K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 309 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Fatou Mata
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fati 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #464 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 309 | — | Fati | 20 |
| NG Nigeria | #986 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | Fati | 40 |
| DZ Algeria | #836 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Fati | 9 |
| GH Ghana | #182 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Fati | 33 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Fati | 29 |
| GE Georgia | #298 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Fati | 12 |
| US United States | — | 237 | 1 in 1.4M | 211 | Fati | 121 |
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: the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Fati 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.
Robust.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Albanian, mythological figure, imagined as one of three women (fates) that would come to a newborn's cradle on the third day of their life to assign their fate and future
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, third-person present subjunctive active of fata
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In niu, to snap, break off; to break, of waves
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In vo, accusative singular of fat
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fatimah bint Asadb. 568SAnot in their usual nameCompanion and aunt of Muhammad
- Fatimab. 604SAnot in their usual namedaughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)
- Fātima bint Mūsāb. 790SAnot in their usual nameDaughter of the Seventh Twelver Imam
- Umm Kulthumb. 1898EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian singer and actress (1904–1975)
- Nargisb. 1929INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (1929-1981)
- Lalla Latifab. 1946MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan royal
- Fatima Whitbreadb. 1961GBnot in their usual nameBritish athlete; former javelin thrower
- Fatima Robinsonb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican music video director and choreographer
- Fatima Bhuttob. 1982PKnot in their usual namePakistani writer
- Fatima Sana Shaikhb. 1992INnot in their usual nameIndian 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 43 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 211 | #34,440 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #34,440 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fati mean, and where does it come from?
- Fatou Mata Recorded by The book of African names.
- Is Fati a male or female name?
- Fati 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.
- In which country does Fati have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 115 thousand people named Fati in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fati.
- How common is the name Fati?
- In the United States, the national register counted 237 people named Fati in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Fati compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Fati is the 464th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fatiThe 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, “Fati” — the 464th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.