Fatimah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Fatimah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Fatimah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #267 in 2017, and it stood at #363 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#267highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#823
1997	#604
1998	#639
1999	#548
2000	#527
2001	#540
2002	#431
2003	#532
2004	#406
2005	#506
2006	#431
2007	#398
2008	#427
2009	#344
2010	#376
2011	#354
2012	#360
2013	#306
2014	#344
2015	#334
2016	#323
2017	#267
2018	#336
2019	#345
2020	#310
2021	#324
2022	#347
2023	#356
2024	#363

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #363 among girls in England and Wales, #384 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #823 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #267 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #363 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Fatimah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,065 births with the name.

Fatimah across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Fatimah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#823 (1996)	#267 (2017)	#363 (2024)	29 of 29	3,065 (1996–2024)	184 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#620 (2002)	#856 (2023)	9 of 22	31 (2002–2023)	5 (2016)

Fatimah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Fatimah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	159	4 of 10	40
2000s	822	10 of 10	82
2010sbusiest	1,426	10 of 10	143
2020s	658	5 of 10	132

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 143 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births fell by 40, from 184 to 144.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Fatimah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #267 in England and Wales in 2017.

Fatimah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#363	120	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#356	119	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#347	123	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#324	147	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#310	149	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#345	129	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#336	144	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#267	184	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#323	154	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#334	140	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#344	133	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#306	152	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#360	134	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#354	135	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#376	121	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#344	127	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#427	99	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#398	104	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#431	95	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#506	69	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#406	91	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#532	58	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#431	74	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#540	52	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#527	53	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#548	51	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#639	39	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#604	42	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#823	27	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #267, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 184 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Fatimah-Zahra · #2615, 12y
Fatma · #282, 68y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Reagan · #267, 30y
Ellie-Rose · #268, 29y
Leigha · #268, 29y
Isobelle · #265, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Devon · #267, 31y
Martinius · #267, 23y
Reagan · #267, 30y
Angharad · #266, 28y

Fatimah was ranked #267 in England and Wales · Girls in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Fatimah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Fatimah without appearing here.

Fatimah moved ahead of

Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #823 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #604 and #1450.
Kylie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #532 and #482 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #406 and #840.
Lorraine Compare
In 1996 they stood at #823 and #661 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #604 and #1015.
Tania Compare
In 2003 they stood at #532 and #478 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #406 and #772.

Moved ahead of Fatimah

Violet Compare
In 2004 they stood at #406 and #607 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #506 and #273.
Maeve Compare
In 2018 they stood at #336 and #507 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #345 and #218.
Sienna Compare
In 2002 they stood at #431 and #490 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #532 and #427.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #376 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #354 and #261.

Moved the opposite way to Fatimah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fatimah went from #823 to #363 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fatimah went from #823 to #363 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fatimah went from #823 to #363 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fatimah went from #823 to #363 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Fatimah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fatimah went from #823 to #363 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fatimah went from #823 to #363 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fatimah went from #823 to #363 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fatimah went from #823 to #363 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #267 in England and Wales in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fatimah

Fatimah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fatimah across 2 official records

Fatimah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Fatimah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Fatimah at a glance

Fatimah across 2 official records

Fatimah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Fatimah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Fatimah

Fatimah and the names beside it

Fatimah moved ahead of

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