Fatima-Zahra
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FAT-i-ma-ZAH-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Fatima-Zahra is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “one who abstains + radiant; also flower”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Fatima-Zahra mean?
Arabic: Fatima + Zahra
“one who abstains + radiant; also flower”
Joins Fatima (Arabic, “one who abstains”) and Zahra (Arabic, “radiant; also flower”).
Meanings borrowed from Fatima and Zahra.
Is Fatima-Zahra a girl's or a boy's name?
Fatima-Zahra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fatima-Zahra in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Fatima-Zahra, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 11 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Fatima-Zahra than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Fatima-Zahra in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Fatima-Zahra in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 1 | #5,054 |
Names like Fatima-Zahra
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hiba, Hafsa, Rahma, Ayah, Zainab, Nusaybah, Khadija, Amira, Fatiha, Safaa
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Fatima-Zahra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fatima-zahra, updated 20 October 2026.