Fatema is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Fatima, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Fatema: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,257 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,257 in 1995; #6,399 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fatema in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,399 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #4,257.
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Fatema: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,257 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 31 (2023).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Fatema, making it the 6,399th most common girls’ name of the year, down 156 places from #6,243 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 19 girls named Fatema in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,257, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 31, in 2023. For comparison, it was #5,177 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fatema in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 903 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 220 babies named Fatema.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 198 US girls were named Fatema; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fatima (38,991 babies since 1880) and Fatimah (3,700 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Fatema in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,399 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,243 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,301 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,286 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,730 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,477 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,208 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,627 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,039 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,177 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,281 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,831 | — | — |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,879 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,113 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,036 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,980 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,140 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,679 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,990 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,090 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,990 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,138 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,599 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,372 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,091 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,206 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,875 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,806 | — | — |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,058 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,119 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,547 | — | — |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,633 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,925 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,396 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,957 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,877 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,608 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,640 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,516 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,006 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,963 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,284 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,153 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,780 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,744 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,005 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,727 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,381 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).