Fatimah-Zahra
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FAT-i-ma-ZAH-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Fatimah-Zahra is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “one who abstains + radiant; also flower”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Fatimah-Zahra mean?
Arabic: Fatimah + Zahra
“one who abstains + radiant; also flower”
Joins Fatimah (Arabic, “one who abstains”) and Zahra (Arabic, “radiant; also flower”).
Meanings borrowed from Fatimah and Zahra.
Is Fatimah-Zahra a girl's or a boy's name?
Fatimah-Zahra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fatimah-Zahra in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 64% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Fatimah-Zahra, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Fatimah-Zahra in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Fatimah-Zahra in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 8 | #3,148 |
Names like Fatimah-Zahra
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Zainab, Khadija, Nusaybah, Ayah, Amira, Safaa, Fatiha
Names related to Fatimah-Zahra
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, “Fatimah-Zahra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fatimah-zahra, updated 20 October 2026.