Fatimah
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Malay: A daughter of the prophet Muhammad, the wife of Ali
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fatimah/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fatimah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 37th most common given name.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 948(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.1K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.7K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 948 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arabic name of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fatimah is read(measured from records)
Fatimah is one spelling over 3 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.
- Malay47%
A daughter of the prophet Muhammad, the wife of Ali.
as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
daughter of Muhammad
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Arabic19%
Arabic name of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
The Prophet's daughter Fatimah; Tanzanian spellings include Fatima, Fatuma, Fatu, Fatumabai, Fatmabhai.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Fatimah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Fatimah | 46 |
| ID Indonesia | #395 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | listed | Fatimah | 165 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #131 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 948 | listed | Fatimah | 120 |
| MY Malaysia | #37 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 6K | Fatimah | 72 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Fatimah | 28 |
| US United States | — | 3,776 | 1 in 88K | 3.8K | Fatimah | 182 |
| LY Libya | #126 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Fatimah | 19 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); the id-github-names register; the islamic-names-dictionary-2005 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 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)
Fatimah 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.
Quiet and calm
as a nameThe book of African names
Suckling,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic 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)
- Fatimah bint Muhammad al-Taymib. 740IQ8th-century Arab princess and wife of Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur
- Fatima bint al-Ahmarb. 1260ESnot in their usual nameNasrid princess of Granada
- Fatimah Hashimb. 1924MYMalaysian politician (1924-2010)
- Fatimah Busub. 1943MYMalaysian novelist, short story writer, and academic; author of Ombak Bukan Biru.
- Fatimah Abdullahb. 1957MYMalaysian politician
- Fatimah Lateefb. 1966SGSingaporean politician
- Keisha Fatimah Az-Zahrab. 2003IDAzerbaijani badminton player
- Fatimah TaliahUSactress
- Fatimah Hassanactress
- Fatimah JacksonUSbiologist, anthropologist and educator
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.8K | #4,787 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 91 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #4,787 |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity) | 1960 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Dictionary of Islamic Names (2005) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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
- Where does the name Fatimah come from?
- Arabic name of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- What does the name Fatimah mean?
- In Malay, A daughter of the prophet Muhammad, the wife of Ali.
- Is Fatimah a male or female name?
- Fatimah 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.
- How do you pronounce Fatimah?
- A machine transcription gives /fatimah/ (IPA) for Malay.
- What are other forms of the name Fatimah?
- In the etymology graph, Fatma, Fatima and Fadime are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Fatimah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Fatimah in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fatimah.
- How common is the name Fatimah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,776 people named Fatimah in 2020, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
- How common is Fatimah compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Fatimah is the 37th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fatimah?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fatimahThe 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, “Fatimah” — the 37th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.