Fatma is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Fatima, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Fatma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,811 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,811 in 2001; #9,050 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fatma in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,050 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #3,811.
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Fatma: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,811 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 35 (2014).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Fatma, making it the 9,050th most common girls’ name of the year, up 737 places from #9,787 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 10 girls named Fatma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,811, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 35, in 2014. For comparison, it was #5,718 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fatma in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 835 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 259 babies named Fatma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 159 US girls were named Fatma; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fatima (38,991 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Fatma 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 | 11 | #9,050 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,787 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,840 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,814 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,178 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,329 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,478 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,340 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,628 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,565 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,718 | — | — |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,191 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,011 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,263 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,332 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,598 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,060 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,175 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,205 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,622 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,110 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,396 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,139 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,825 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,357 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,559 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,131 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,688 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,094 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,175 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,185 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,723 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,710 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,037 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,911 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,235 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,833 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,980 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,397 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,583 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,459 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,444 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,686 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,883 | — | — |
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).