Girl · Arabic, through a Portuguese place-name
Fátima
Say it: FAH-tee-mah
Meaning
From Arabic Fāṭima, the name of Muhammad's daughter, usually linked to a root meaning 'to wean'. Iberian use comes from the Portuguese village of Fátima, named in the Moorish period, where Marian apparitions were reported in 1917.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Spread through Portugal and Spain after the 1917 apparitions.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 34,439 babies given this name since 1919
- At its height in 2006, about 1 in 1,300 girls
- 902 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
PortugueseSpanishMexicanCentral AmericanAndeanArgentineCaribbeanBrazilian
The family of the name
Other spellings: Fatima
| Portuguese | Fátima |
|---|---|
| Arabic | Fatima |
| Arabic | Fatimah |
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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