Fatou — #2995 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Fatou

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,167 babies named Fatou between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fatou currently holds the #2995 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 55 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fatou performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 429 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Fatou shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 367 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Fatou in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fatou 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 1,167 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.