Fatimatu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/fatimatu/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Fatimatu is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 30Kfew records
- ESSpain1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fatimatu 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 | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Fatimatu | 20 |
| GH Ghana | #670 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Fatimatu | 27 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Fatimatu | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 40 | 1 in 1.3M | 40 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 13M | listed | Fatimatu | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | — | Fatimatu | 15 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
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).
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 40 | #33,601 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 31 | #18,755 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Fatimatu?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /fatimatu/; in Swahili /fɑtimɑtu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Fatimatu a male or female name?
- Fatimatu 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 Fatimatu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.3 thousand people named Fatimatu in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fatimatu.
- How common is the name Fatimatu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 40 people named Fatimatu, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Fatimatu compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Fatimatu is the 670th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fatimatu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fatimatuThe 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, “Fatimatu” — the 670th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.