Given name & surname
Fatih
“victorious, conqueror”
Fatih is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fatih goes back to Arabic فاتح, meaning “victorious, conqueror.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fatih through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 114
- 114 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 11 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 boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 728 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.
People named Fatih
- Fatih TerimTurkish association football player and manager (born 1953)
- Fatih AkinGerman filmmaker (born 1973)
- Fatih BirolTurkish economist and energy expertborn 1958
- Fatih PortakalTurkish journalist (born 1967)
- Fatih AkyelTurkish association football player (born 1977)
- Fatih TekkeTurkish association football player (born 1977)
- Fatih SonkayaTurkish association football player (born 1981)
- Fatih AtikTurkish-French association football player (born 1984)
- Fatih Mehmet MaçoğluTurkish statesperson (born 1968)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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