Fatima - Origin and Meaning of the name

The girl name Fatima [ 3 syll. fa-ti-ma, fat-ima ] is pronounced FAETHahMah ^KEY. Fatima is of Arabic origin and it is also used mainly in Arabic. The meaning of Fatima is 'chaste, motherly'. Derived literally from the word fatima which has the meaning 'abstaining, weaning'. The name was borne by the youngest daughter of Muhammad (606 to 632). Through its associations with the Muslim virtue of chastity, the name has been popular in the Islamic world. The name has sometimes been used by Roman Catholics in honor of Our Lady of Fatima, a title given to Virgin Mary by those who believe that she appeared to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal in 1917.

A variant of Fatima is Fatma (Arabic).

Fatima is popular as a baby girl name, and it is also regarded as fairly trendy. The name's popularity has been increasing since the 1970s; before that, it was of only irregular use. At the modest height of its usage in 2006, 0.073% of baby girls were named Fatima. It was #228 in rank then. In 2007, it ranked at #232 with a usage of 0.072%, and it was the most popular within all girl names in its family.

Baby names that sound like Fatima include Photina (Greek), Fatma (Arabic), and Photine (Greek).

^KEY: English pronunciation for Fatima: F as in "fee (F.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; TH as in "theta (TH.EY.T.AH)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"

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for Fatima
from 1900 to 2007

Variant Popularity Chart
for Fatima
in 2007