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Fatou: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,902 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,902 in 2003; #2,968 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fatou in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,968 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #2,902.
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Fatou: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,902 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 56 (2025).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Fatou, making it the 2,968th most common girls’ name of the year, up 18 places from #2,986 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 55 girls named Fatou in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,902, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 56, in 2025. For comparison, it was #3,871 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fatou in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 1,223 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 429 babies named Fatou.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 420 US girls were named Fatou; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fatou ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #839 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 19 | #839 | #1,236 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,188 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,846 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,579 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,875 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,429 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,361 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,098 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,331 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,331 | — | — |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,122 | — | — |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,902 | — | — |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,408 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,783 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,570 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,254 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,377 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,977 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,865 | — | — |
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).