Fatimah
#2,064 for girls in 2025, 91 births
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 74 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,700since 1959
Fatimah over time
Rank among girls' names. Fatimah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,064 | 91 |
| 2024 | #2,303 | 80 |
| 2023 | #1,934 | 102 |
| 2022 | #1,731 | 120 |
| 2021 | #1,980 | 98 |
| 2020 | #1,616 | 129 |
| 2019 | #1,850 | 109 |
| 2018 | #1,830 | 111 |
| 2017 | #1,804 | 115 |
| 2016 | #1,785 | 116 |
| 2015 | #1,894 | 107 |
| 2014 | #1,908 | 105 |
| 2013 | #2,064 | 93 |
| 2012 | #1,973 | 99 |
| 2011 | #2,190 | 86 |
| 2010 | #2,405 | 78 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 |
| 2008 | #2,267 | 86 |
| 2007 | #2,568 | 72 |
| 2006 | #3,017 | 56 |
| 2005 | #2,969 | 54 |
| 2004 | #2,556 | 65 |
| 2003 | #2,243 | 76 |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 |
| 2001 | #2,766 | 53 |
| 2000 | #2,236 | 70 |
| 1999 | #2,368 | 62 |
| 1998 | #2,279 | 62 |
| 1997 | #2,590 | 49 |
| 1996 | #2,630 | 47 |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 |
| 1994 | #2,465 | 51 |
| 1993 | #1,922 | 73 |
| 1992 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 |
| 1988 | #2,274 | 49 |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 |
| 1986 | #2,116 | 50 |
| 1985 | #2,484 | 39 |
| 1984 | #2,050 | 49 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 |
| 1982 | #1,584 | 74 |
| 1981 | #1,700 | 67 |
| 1980 | #1,863 | 58 |
| 1979 | #2,020 | 50 |
| 1978 | #1,915 | 51 |
| 1977 | #2,307 | 39 |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 |
| 1975 | #2,680 | 28 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Fatimah! It came in at #5,566, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1961, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Fatimah is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#483 · 1 in 3,727
- Pennsylvania#759 · 1 in 8,668
- New York#1,276 · 1 in 14,476
- California#2,056 · 1 in 30,215
Best ever in a state: #294 in New Jersey, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #483 | 10 | 1 in 3,727 |
| Pennsylvania | #759 | 8 | 1 in 8,668 |
| New York | #1,276 | 7 | 1 in 14,476 |
| California | #2,056 | 6 | 1 in 30,215 |
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See more about Fatimah
- 239 spots since 2024 (#2,303 → #2,064)
- 448 spots since 2020 (#1,616 → #2,064)
- 170 spots since 2015 (#1,894 → #2,064)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1982 at #1,584 (74 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,531 girls born in 2020 were named Fatimah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,662 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,584 in 1982, was only 1 in 22,883 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.5% of all girls named Fatimah (1,019) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 6 | #5,566 (1959) | #5,566 |
| 1960s | 55 | #4,494 (1965) | #5,595 |
| 1970s | 247 | #1,915 (1978) | #4,230 |
| 1980s | 539 | #1,584 (1982) | #2,055 |
| 1990s | 552 | #1,922 (1993) | #2,408 |
| 2000s | 662 | #2,236 (2000) | #2,583 |
| 2010s | 1,019 | #1,785 (2016) | #1,970 |
| 2020s | 620 | #1,616 (2020) | #1,938 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Fatimah in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 24,896 of them was named Fatimah, which outranked 86.1% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,674Terese68
- #1,674Tonja68
- #1,674Yessenia68
- #1,700Fatimah67
- #1,700Alisia67
- #1,700Cheree67
- #1,700Ivory67
- #1,714Cassy66
- #1,714Claudette66
- #1,714Debora66
Tied with 13 names at #1,700; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.