Fatma
Fatma was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,048 among girls’ names; 835 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fatma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fatma mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Fatma is “a female given name from Arabic”
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فاطمه (Fâtime), from Arabic فَاطِمَة (fāṭima).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fatma?
#9,048 among girls’ names, 2025
Fatma fell from #5,716 in 2015 to #9,048 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 6.8 per million.
35 babies in 2014, the peak
Fatma peaked in 2014, when 35 girls were given it, #4,205 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,048 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,782 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,835 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,809 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,173 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,325 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,474 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,336 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,624 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,564 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,716 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,205 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,189 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,009 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,261 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,331 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,596 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,058 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,171 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,203 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,618 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,106 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,391 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,135 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,807 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,820 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,353 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,861 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,556 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,126 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,683 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,088 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,169 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,179 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,717 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,704 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,031 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,906 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,230 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,828 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,978 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,394 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,581 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,457 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,442 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,683 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,881 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fatma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fatma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fatma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fatma, and how old are they?
An estimated 824 Americans named Fatma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,257 people named Fatma (3,244 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 755 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 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, Fatma is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,072 babies (1.0%), the fifth 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 Fatma
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 Fatma and names like it
- Compare Fatma and FatimaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFatma peaked in 2014.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fatma since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Fatma: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Fatma.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fatma alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.