Fatimah — #2301 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Fatimah

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,608 babies named Fatimah between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fatimah currently holds the #2301 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 129 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fatimah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,019 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Fatimah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 529 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Fatimah in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fatimah 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 3,608 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.