Given name
Fatimah
Fatimah is a variant of Fatima. One Arabic interpretation is “the perfect woman; in the Koran, a daughter of Muhammad.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fatimah is a variant of Fatima. One Arabic interpretation is “the perfect woman; in the Koran, a daughter of Muhammad.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Fatimah is a variant of Fatima. An origin associated with Fatima is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Arabic فَاطِمَة; its root is Arabic ف ط م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fatimah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,700
- 0 boys · 3,700 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 129 babies
- 2025
- 91
- #2,070 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −15%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 91 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 2,070 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 15.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (10). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,776 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.
Fatimah’s family of names
Fatimah has a related form in Fatima. Fatimah has a conventional equivalent in the English form Fatima. Fatimah has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 法蒂瑪.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fatimah
- Fatimah bint AsadCompanion and aunt of Muhammad568–625
- Fatimah el-Sharifqueen consort of Libya (1911–2009)
- Fatimah TuggarNigerian artist (born 1967)
- Fatimah HashimMalaysian politician (1924-2010)
- Fatimah bint Muhammad al-Taymi8th-century Arab princess and wife of Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur740–775
- Fatima bint al-AhmarNasrid princess of Granada1260–1349
- Fatimah AbdullahMalaysian politicianborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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