Fatuma
Fatuma was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,784 among girls’ names; 598 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fatuma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fatuma mean?
Wiktionary, Swahili section
Fatuma is “a female given name from Arabic”
Borrowed from Arabic فَاطِمَة (fāṭima).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swahili section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fatuma?
#5,784 among girls’ names, 2025
Fatuma fell from #5,345 in 2015 to #5,784 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 13.1 per million.
36 babies in 2013, the peak
Fatuma peaked in 2013, when 36 girls were given it, #4,099 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,784 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,056 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,288 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,067 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,880 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,326 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,810 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,337 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,625 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,283 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,345 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,532 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,099 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,597 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,490 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,647 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,131 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,933 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,421 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,599 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,241 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,877 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,575 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,734 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,475 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,755 | 6.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,959 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,607 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,931 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,859 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fatuma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fatuma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fatuma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fatuma, and how old are they?
An estimated 593 Americans named Fatuma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,479 people named Fatuma (2,474 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 459 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.4 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, Fatuma is the fifth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 1,072 babies (2.0%), the third 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 Fatuma
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 Fatuma and names like it
- Compare Fatuma and FatimaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFatuma peaked in 2013.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fatuma since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Fatuma: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Fatuma.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fatuma alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.