Meaning not yet researched.
Fatimah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 91 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,588 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,588 in 1982; #2,070 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fatimah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,070 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #1,588.
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Fatimah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 91 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,588 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 129 (2020).
In 2025, 91 US girls were named Fatimah, making it the 2,070th most common girls’ name of the year, up 245 places from #2,315 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 80 girls named Fatimah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,588, reached in 1982. The most girls given the name in a single year was 129, in 2020. For comparison, it was #1,899 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fatimah in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 6 babies. In all, 3,700 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,019 babies named Fatimah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,071 US girls were named Fatimah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,662 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fatimah ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #999 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Fatima (38,991 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fateemah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fateemah (5).
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 Fatimah 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 7 | #999 | #949 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,053 | #1,518 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,467 | #974 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,541 | #921 |
| New York | 8 | #1,572 | #1,668 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,094 | #1,966 |
| California | 6 | #2,887 | #2,214 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2015 | 107 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 2012 | 99 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,652 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,443 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1981 | 67 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,210 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,765 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,728 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,382 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,149 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,822 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,641 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,435 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,600 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,078 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,489 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,087 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,772 | — | — |
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).