Fotima
Girl · FOH-tee-ma · Arabic
Fotima 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 Fotima mean?
Arabic: Uzbek and Tajik form of Fatima
“one who weans”
Form of Fatima, the name of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter.
- Say it
- FOH-tee-ma
Is Fotima a girl's or a boy's name?
Fotima 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 Fotima 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 Fotima, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
2025 had fewer girls named Fotima than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Fotima in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fotima in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
Names like Fotima
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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