Fatah

given name · Latin script

Meaning: conquest

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fatah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 6.7K
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 324K

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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

Sources
115 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

conquest

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fatah 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.

Where Fatah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#201≈18,000 est.≈1 in 2.4KlistedFatah33
MA Morocco#936≈5,300 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Fatah34
AF Afghanistan—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 21K—Fatah8
FR France—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 58K370—3
PK Pakistan#365≈720 est.≈1 in 324K—Fatah22
MY Malaysia—≈430 est.≈1 in 76K—Fatah24
ES Spain—1231 in 407K238—25

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fatah is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Morocco

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Fatah', 'Fatah

  • French given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Algeria, Morocco, Belgium

    Also written Fåtäh, Fãtãh, Fàtàh, Fätàh, Fàtah

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Fatāḥ, Fataḥ

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Philippines, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fàtàh, Fåtãh, Fãtãh, Fâtåh, Fåťãh

  • Bangla given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Malaysia, United States

    Also written ফাতাহ্, ফাতাহ

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Fàtâh

  • Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Fāțăh

42 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(measured from records)

Fatah 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.

  • In English, A major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Palestīniešu nacionālās atbrīvošanās kustība, izveidota 20. gs. 50. gadu beigās (apvērsta abreviatūra no arābu "Harakat al-Tahrir al Wataniyyeh al-Falastiniyyeh")

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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 38 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Fatah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—238#14,495
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—238#14,438
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197131—

Reference works 4

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 Fatah mean, and where does it come from?
conquest Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Fatah a male or female name?
Fatah is a male 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 Fatah have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Fatah in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fatah.
How common is the name Fatah?
In Spain, the national register counted 123 people named Fatah, about 1 in 407 thousand residents.
How common is Fatah compared with other names?
In Algeria, Fatah is the 201st most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.

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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, “Fatah” — the 201st most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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