Fatimata
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- fah-tee-MAH-tah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Fatimata is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “one who weans”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Fatimata mean?
Arabic: West African form of Fatima
“one who weans”
A Fula and Mande form of Fatima, the name of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter.
Is Fatimata a girl's or a boy's name?
Fatimata is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fatimata in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Fatimata, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had fewer girls named Fatimata than any year since 1997.
Half of all the girls named Fatimata in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fatimata in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,234 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
Nicknames for Fatimata
- Fati
Names like Fatimata
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Fatoumata Aaliyah Zahara Hafsa Rahma Amira Safiya Salma Zainab Samira Zamira
Names related to Fatimata
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Fatimata: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fatimata, updated 20 October 2026.