Fatou
Fatou was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,968 among girls’ names; 1,223 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Fatou and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fatou by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fatou?
#2,968 among girls’ names, 2025
Fatou rose from #3,870 in 2015 to #2,968 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 34.8 per million.
56 babies in 2025, the peak
Fatou peaked in 2025, when 56 girls were given it, #2,968 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 55 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,968 | 34.8 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,986 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,486 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,844 | 23.8 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,653 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,800 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,578 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,874 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,503 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,429 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,870 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,359 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,095 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,753 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,092 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,330 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,400 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,498 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,668 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,330 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,973 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,118 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,899 | 29.0 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,026 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,436 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,083 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,262 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,405 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,047 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,778 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,565 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,248 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,371 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,970 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,858 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fatou a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fatou has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fatou: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fatou, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,223 Americans ever recorded as Fatou. The median Fatou alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,402 people named Fatou (2,381 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 962 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 81 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 628 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 502 |
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 Fatou born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 19 | #839 | 5.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,187 | 0.7× |
Where Fatou is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fatou is most over-represented in New York: since 1991 it was given 5.0 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 Fatou with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fatou
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 Fatou and names like it
- Compare Fatou and ItzelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFatou peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fatou since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Fatou.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fatou alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.