Fatma

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Fatma: Recorded since 1949, it reached #282 in 1965, and it stood at #1,819 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
83times a registrar ranked it
76years from first to last
#282highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#891
1997	#926
1998	#995
1999	#691
2000	#728
2001	#627
2002	#735
2003	#712
2004	#722
2005	#756
2006	#678
2007	#854
2008	#995
2009	#1022
2010	#1072
2011	#1096
2012	#1525
2013	#1018
2014	#1016
2015	#1324
2016	#1370
2017	#1568
2018	#1393
2019	#1153
2020	#1687
2021	#2073
2022	#2325
2023	#1705
2024	#1819

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 54 of the 66 years from 1949 to 2014.

In 2014: #555 among girls in Norway, #1016 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1949–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1949
First recorded at #383 among girls in Norway in 1949 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1949–2014
Highest recorded position: #282 among girls in Norway, in 1965 (recorded 1949–2014).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1819 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Fatma appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 54 years beginning in 1949, and has registered 443 births with the name.

Fatma 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.

Fatma'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
Norway · Girls	#383 (1949)	#282 (1965)	#555 (2014)	54 of 66	443 (1949–2014)	14 (1978)
England and Wales · Girls	#891 (1996)	#627 (2001)	#1819 (2024)	29 of 29	818 (1996–2024)	46 (2006)

Fatma by decade in Norway · 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 Fatma in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	4	1 of 10	4
1950s	23	4 of 10	6
1960s	65	9 of 10	7
1970s	90	10 of 10	9
1980sbusiest	105	10 of 10	11
1990s	88	9 of 10	10
2000s	44	7 of 10	6
2010s	24	4 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Fatma 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 2 regions, from 1949 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #282 in Norway in 1965.

Fatma'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	#1819	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1153	29	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1393	23	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1568	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1370	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1016	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1096	31	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1072	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1022	31	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#995	31	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#854	37	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#678	46	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#756	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#722	39	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#712	39	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#735	35	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#627	41	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#728	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#691	34	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#995	21	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#926	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#891	24	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#555	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#528	5	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#464	7	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#440	8	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#433	9	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#481	7	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#494	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#542	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#554	5	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#589	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#418	8	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#397	9	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#363	10	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#342	11	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#634	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#355	11	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#393	10	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#344	12	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#461	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#348	13	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#348	13	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#421	10	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#424	10	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#388	11	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#479	8	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#345	13	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#477	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#309	14	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#482	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#337	12	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#383	10	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#313	14	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#369	10	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#318	13	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#596	4	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#452	7	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#371	10	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#467	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#335	11	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#585	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#550	4	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#390	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#503	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#368	8	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#282	13	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#337	9	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#459	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#400	6	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#368	7	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#331	8	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#422	4	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#341	6	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#383	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1949 and 2024, ranked in 68 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #282, first reached in 1965.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 47 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.

Fatimah · #267, 29y
Fatimah-Zahra · #2615, 12y
Fatou · #1535, 28y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Mehmet · #267, 72y
Sahra · #298, 63y
Abdullahi · #245, 66y
Ahmet · #327, 65y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Kato · #282, 35y
Edit · #283, 13y
Vilhelm · #283, 27y
Ingve · #284, 42y

Fatma was ranked #282 in Norway · Girls in 1965. 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.

Fatma 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 Fatma without appearing here.

Fatma moved ahead of

Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1819 and #3695.
Shauna Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1525 and #1525 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1018 and #2649.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2325 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1705 and #2689.
Sandra Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #1525 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1819 and #2771.

Moved ahead of Fatma

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #1452.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1687 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #1286.
Eileen Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1153 and #1316 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1687 and #1238.
Maia Compare
In 1995 they stood at #355 and #365 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #634 and #240.

Moved the opposite way to Fatma

Anna Compare
Between 1949 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Fatma went from #383 to #555 while Anna went from #49 to #4.
Camilla Compare
Between 1949 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Fatma went from #383 to #555 while Camilla went from #362 to #164.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1949 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Fatma went from #383 to #555 while Charlotte went from #381 to #104.
Elise Compare
Between 1949 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Fatma went from #383 to #555 while Elise went from #187 to #33.

Moved the same way as Fatma

Anette Compare
Between 1949 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Fatma went from #383 to #555 and Anette from #332 to #545.
Annie Compare
Between 1949 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Fatma went from #383 to #555 and Annie from #151 to #391.
Åse Compare
Between 1949 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Fatma went from #383 to #555 and Åse from #24 to #543.
Astrid Compare
Between 1949 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Fatma went from #383 to #555 and Astrid from #12 to #50.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1949 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #282 in Norway in 1965. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fatma

Fatma at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fatma across 2 official records

Fatma by decade in Norway · Girls

Fatma appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Fatma at a glance

Fatma across 2 official records

Fatma by decade in Norway · Girls

Fatma appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Fatma

Fatma and the names beside it

Fatma moved ahead of

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