Faatimah — girls' name
136 babies named Faatimah in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Faatimah was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Faatimah in 1991 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Faatimah
The Social Security Administration has registered 136 babies named Faatimah between 1989 and 2021, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Faatimah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Faatimah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Faatimah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Faatimah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Faatimah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 136 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Faatimah at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Faatimah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1989
- Peak year (1991)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
136 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1991 with 12 births in a single year.
Faatimah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 53 births that decade — 39% of Faatimah's all-time total
Faatimah decade highlights
- Peak decade 53 births
- Runner-up 45 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Faatimah's strongest decade
53 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Faatimah by state
Where Faatimah concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 3.7% |
5 of 136 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.