Fatimah
Fatimah was given to 91 girls in 2025, #2,070 among girls’ names; 3,700 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,630 Americans named Fatimah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fatimah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fatimah?
#2,070 among girls’ names, 2025
Fatimah fell from #1,899 in 2015 to #2,070 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 59.9 to 56.6 per million.
129 babies in 2020, the peak
Fatimah peaked in 2020, when 129 girls were given it, #1,618 among girls’ names. The 91 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,070 | 56.6 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,315 | 49.4 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,937 | 63.6 |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,736 | 73.2 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,983 | 59.7 |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,618 | 79.8 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,852 | 64.9 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,836 | 65.3 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,806 | 66.6 |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,789 | 65.5 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,899 | 59.9 |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,912 | 58.8 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,068 | 53.0 |
| 2012 | 99 | #1,975 | 56.2 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,199 | 48.9 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,411 | 43.9 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,575 | 39.2 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,280 | 45.5 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,578 | 37.4 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,028 | 29.5 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,973 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,564 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,244 | 41.6 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,649 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,777 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,241 | 38.5 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,373 | 35.0 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,288 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,595 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,636 | 26.8 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,593 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,472 | 28.6 |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,922 | 40.4 |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,010 | 36.9 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,796 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,438 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,533 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,275 | 27.5 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,996 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,128 | 29.1 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,503 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,058 | 29.1 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,971 | 31.1 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,588 | 43.7 |
| 1981 | 67 | #1,702 | 40.2 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,870 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,030 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,921 | 33.3 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,317 | 25.4 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,501 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,700 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,909 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,209 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,763 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,726 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,381 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,147 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,820 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,640 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,434 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,599 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,077 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,488 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,086 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,771 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fatimah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fatimah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fatimah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fatimah, and how old are they?
3,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,700 Americans ever recorded as Fatimah. The median Fatimah alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 3,776 people named Fatimah (3,769 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,064 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 323 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 836 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Fatimah born?
The states with the most babies named Fatimah are Texas, New York and Illinois, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,094 | 0.5× |
| New York | 8 | #1,572 | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,053 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 7 | #999 | 0.9× |
| California | 6 | #2,887 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,467 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,540 | 0.4× |
Where Fatimah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fatimah is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fatimah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Fatimah?
Fatimah is a less common spelling of Fatima: SSA has recorded 3,700 Fatimah and 38,991 Fatima since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,412 babies since 1880, Fatimah is the second most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 91 of their 1,072 babies (8.5%), again the second most given.
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 Fatimah
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 Fatimah and names like it
- Compare Fatimah and FatimaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFatimah peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fatimah since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Fatimah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fatimah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.