Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Fatemeh isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fatemeh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 38
- 0 boys · 38 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,568 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fatemeh’s family of names
Fatemeh may belong to the same name family as FATEMMEH. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fatemeh
- Fatemeh RahbarIranian politician (1964–2020)
- Fatemeh PahlaviIranian princess1928–1987
- Fatemeh HaghighatjooIranian Reformist politician, activist, women's studies professor.born 1968
- Fatemeh KarroubiIranian politicianborn 1949
- Fatemeh RakeeiIranian politician, linguist, poetborn 1954
- Fatemeh BehboudiIranian photojournalist and documentary photographerborn 1985
- Fatemeh Hemmatipara-archer from Iranborn 2003
- Fatemeh ShamsIranian poet, Persian language and literature scholar, and university teacherborn 1983
- JamilehIranian actor and dancer1946–1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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