# Fatimah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/fatimah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,700 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,700 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,196, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 86 | 2,199 |
| 2012 | 99 | 1,975 |
| 2013 | 93 | 2,068 |
| 2014 | 105 | 1,912 |
| 2015 | 107 | 1,899 |
| 2016 | 116 | 1,789 |
| 2017 | 115 | 1,806 |
| 2018 | 111 | 1,836 |
| 2019 | 109 | 1,852 |
| 2020 | 129 | 1,618 |
| 2021 | 98 | 1,983 |
| 2022 | 120 | 1,736 |
| 2023 | 102 | 1,937 |
| 2024 | 80 | 2,315 |
| 2025 | 91 | 2,070 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 135 | 354 |
| 2012 | 134 | 360 |
| 2013 | 152 | 306 |
| 2014 | 133 | 344 |
| 2015 | 140 | 334 |
| 2016 | 154 | 323 |
| 2017 | 184 | 267 |
| 2018 | 144 | 336 |
| 2019 | 129 | 345 |
| 2020 | 149 | 310 |
| 2021 | 147 | 324 |
| 2022 | 123 | 347 |
| 2023 | 119 | 356 |
| 2024 | 120 | 363 |
| 2025 | 131 | 329 |

## People named Fatimah

- Keisha Fatimah Az-Zahra, Azerbaijani badminton player
- Fatimah bint Muhammad al-Taymi, 8th-century Arab princess and wife of Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.