Meaning not yet researched.
Fatima: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 931 in 2025. Its best rank was #227 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #227 in 2001; #330 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fatima in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#330 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #227.
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Fatima: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 931 girls in 2025. Peak: #227 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 1,515 (2006).
In 2025, 931 US girls were named Fatima, making it the 330th most common girls’ name of the year, down 14 places from #316 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 974 girls named Fatima in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #227, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,515, in 2006. For comparison, it was #312 in 2015 and #2,473 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fatima in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 6 babies. In all, 38,991 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 13,624 babies named Fatima.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,441 US girls were named Fatima; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,069. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,726 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fatima ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #113 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Fatimah (3,700 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fatema, Fatma and Fatuma are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fatema (903), Fatma (835), Fatuma (598), Fathima (240), Fatemah (168), Faatimah (136), Faatima (77), Fatouma (38), Fatemeh (38), Fateema (25), Phatima (21), Fatyma (10), and more.
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 Fatima in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 134 | #113 | #175 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #127 | — |
| Michigan | 56 | #151 | #197 |
| Illinois | 45 | #224 | #208 |
| Minnesota | 23 | #245 | #310 |
| New Jersey | 33 | #246 | #297 |
| Virginia | 33 | #250 | #272 |
| Washington | 27 | #267 | #254 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #270 | #296 |
| California | 120 | #277 | #219 |
| Texas | 123 | #280 | #221 |
| Oregon | 11 | #335 | #439 |
| Georgia | 29 | #390 | #431 |
| Ohio | 28 | #405 | #435 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #430 | #484 |
| Maryland | 12 | #442 | #190 |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #445 | #556 |
| Colorado | 12 | #473 | #420 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #492 | #320 |
| Kansas | 6 | #522 | #661 |
| Florida | 34 | #535 | #542 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #535 | #457 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #538 | #891 |
| Nevada | 5 | #553 | #381 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #555 | #553 |
| Indiana | 11 | #588 | #545 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #595 | #614 |
| Arizona | 11 | #597 | #317 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #629 | #800 |
| Utah | 6 | #641 | #646 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #646 | #341 |
| Missouri | 8 | #673 | #771 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #683 | #297 |
| Alabama | 6 | #749 | #733 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #771 | #524 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 931 | #330 | — | — |
| 2024 | 974 | #316 | — | — |
| 2023 | 895 | #344 | — | — |
| 2022 | 905 | #352 | — | — |
| 2021 | 824 | #380 | — | — |
| 2020 | 908 | #342 | — | — |
| 2019 | 980 | #327 | — | — |
| 2018 | 917 | #345 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,038 | #314 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,069 | #306 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,042 | #312 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,013 | #331 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,037 | #310 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,057 | #303 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,129 | #281 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,213 | #272 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,198 | #275 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,391 | #249 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,512 | #234 | 5 | #12,956 |
| 2006 | 1,515 | #228 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,422 | #236 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,198 | #273 | 6 | #10,390 |
| 2003 | 1,354 | #241 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,287 | #247 | 7 | #8,749 |
| 2001 | 1,408 | #227 | 5 | #11,117 |
| 2000 | 1,316 | #242 | — | — |
| 1999 | 750 | #382 | 7 | #8,137 |
| 1998 | 512 | #496 | — | — |
| 1997 | 495 | #501 | — | — |
| 1996 | 422 | #552 | — | — |
| 1995 | 385 | #591 | — | — |
| 1994 | 403 | #571 | — | — |
| 1993 | 421 | #565 | — | — |
| 1992 | 360 | #629 | — | — |
| 1991 | 324 | #668 | — | — |
| 1990 | 362 | #620 | 5 | #8,549 |
| 1989 | 294 | #689 | 6 | #7,285 |
| 1988 | 293 | #659 | — | — |
| 1987 | 268 | #689 | — | — |
| 1986 | 225 | #767 | — | — |
| 1985 | 225 | #759 | — | — |
| 1984 | 246 | #683 | 5 | #6,647 |
| 1983 | 203 | #785 | — | — |
| 1982 | 245 | #708 | — | — |
| 1981 | 223 | #741 | — | — |
| 1980 | 211 | #782 | — | — |
| 1979 | 210 | #766 | — | — |
| 1978 | 171 | #859 | — | — |
| 1977 | 158 | #899 | — | — |
| 1976 | 157 | #867 | — | — |
| 1975 | 193 | #746 | — | — |
| 1974 | 151 | #863 | — | — |
| 1973 | 149 | #862 | — | — |
| 1972 | 107 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1971 | 97 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1969 | 88 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1965 | 53 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1962 | 59 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,859 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,957 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,916 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,067 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,791 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,809 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,357 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,387 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,453 | — | — |
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).