Fatema
Fatema was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,398 among girls’ names; 903 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fatema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fatema?
#6,398 among girls’ names, 2025
Fatema fell from #5,175 in 2015 to #6,398 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 11.2 per million.
31 babies in 2023, the peak
Fatema peaked in 2023, when 31 girls were given it, #4,490 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,398 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,240 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,490 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,296 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,282 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,726 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,473 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,204 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,623 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,037 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,175 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,279 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,827 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,877 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,111 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,034 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,979 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,136 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,675 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,988 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,085 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,851 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,985 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,134 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,594 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,367 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,085 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,202 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,085 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,870 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,252 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,800 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,052 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,113 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,541 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,628 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,919 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,391 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,952 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,874 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,605 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,639 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,514 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,005 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,962 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,283 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,151 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,778 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,742 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,003 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,725 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,380 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fatema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fatema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fatema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fatema, and how old are they?
An estimated 889 Americans named Fatema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,587 people named Fatema (2,579 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 769 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,353 babies since 1880, Fatema is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 1,072 babies (1.7%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fatema
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fatema and names like it
- Compare Fatema and FatimaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFatema peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fatema since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Fatema.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fatema alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.