Fatumata
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- fah-TOO-mah-tah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Fatumata is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “one who weans”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Fatumata mean?
Arabic: West African form of Fatimah
“one who weans”
West African form of Fatimah, the name of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter.
Is Fatumata a girl's or a boy's name?
Fatumata is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fatumata in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2020, with 5 girls.
Fatumata in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
How popular is Fatumata in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Fatumata, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the girls named Fatumata in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fatumata in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
Nicknames for Fatumata
- Fatu
Names like Fatumata
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Hiba Zainab Aaliyah Abeeha Rahma Amira Khadija Ayah Halima Safiya
Names related to Fatumata
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Fatumata: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fatumata, updated 20 October 2026.