Fatouma — girls' name
33 babies named Fatouma in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Fatouma was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Fatouma in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Fatouma
The Social Security Administration has registered 33 babies named Fatouma between 1997 and 2020, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fatouma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Fatouma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 16 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Fatouma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Fatouma 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 33 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.
Fatouma at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Fatouma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1997
- Peak year (2008)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
33 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 6 births in a single year.
Fatouma by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 16 births that decade — 48% of Fatouma's all-time total
Fatouma decade highlights
- Peak decade 16 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Fatouma's strongest decade
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.