# Fatma (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/fatma/  
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 | 835 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 835 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 837, 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 | 26 | 5,263 |
| 2012 | 28 | 5,011 |
| 2013 | 26 | 5,191 |
| 2014 | 35 | 4,207 |
| 2015 | 23 | 5,718 |
| 2016 | 31 | 4,565 |
| 2017 | 18 | 6,628 |
| 2018 | 19 | 6,340 |
| 2019 | 15 | 7,478 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,329 |
| 2021 | 13 | 8,178 |
| 2022 | 17 | 6,814 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9,840 |
| 2024 | 10 | 9,787 |
| 2025 | 11 | 9,050 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | 1,096 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,525 |
| 2013 | 35 | 1,018 |
| 2014 | 35 | 1,016 |
| 2015 | 25 | 1,324 |
| 2016 | 24 | 1,370 |
| 2017 | 20 | 1,568 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,393 |
| 2019 | 29 | 1,153 |
| 2020 | 17 | 1,687 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,705 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,819 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1,584 |

## People named Fatma

- Fatma Samoura, FIFA Secretary General & former UN official
- Fatma Zohra Zamoum, Algerian writer, filmmaker (born 1967)
- Fatma Gadri, Azerbaijani actress
- Fatma Rushdi, Egyptian actor (1908–1996)
- Fatma xanım Kəminə, Azerbaijani poet (1841-1898)
- Fatma Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid I
- Baya, Algerian painter (1931-1998)
- Mihrengiz Kadın, Consort of Ottoman Sultan (1869–1938)

## 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.