Fatima (given name) explained

Fatima فَاطِمَة
Pronunciation:	pronounced as /ar/
Gender:	Female
Meaning:	one who abstains^[1] ^[2]
Origin:	Arabic
Related Names:	Fathima, Fatimah, Fadumo, Fadime, Fadima, Fatma, Fatme, Fatemeh, Fathama, Fadma, Fatna, Fatim, Fotima, Patimat, Petimat

Fatima (Arabic: فَاطِمَة ,), also spelled Fatimah, is a feminine given name of Arabic origin used throughout the Muslim world. Several relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad had the name, including his daughter Fatima as the most famous one. The literal meaning of the name is one who weans an infant or one who abstains.^[3] ^[4]

The colloquial Arabic pronunciation of the name in some varieties (e.g., Syrian and Egyptian) often omits the unstressed second syllable and renders it as Fatma when romanized. Incidentally, this is also the usual Turkish and Azerbaijani form of the name (another variant, Fadime, is less common). In South Asian countries, such as India (most commonly), Pakistan, it may be spelt as Fathima. In Persian, the name is rendered as Fatemeh in the Iranian dialect, Fatima in Afghan dialect, and Fotima (Фотима) in Tajik dialect. The name Fatima was given to the city by the Arabs in honor of Prophet Muhammad’s daughter Fatima.

Fatima is also used by non-Muslims: the town of Fátima, Portugal (originally named after an Arab princess) was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Catholic populations, particularly in the Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking countries.

Variations

This name has many variations in different languages. The Turkish and Azerbaijani transliteration of the name is either Fatma or Fadime. In Somali the name became Fadumo. It is Faḍma in Kabyle. In South Asia, it is spelt Fathima. Spelled as Fátima, the name is also common amongst Spanish and especially Portuguese speaking peoples in Iberia as well as in the Americas. Due to the Berber influence on Moroccan Arabic, other variations exist in Morocco, such as Fatna, Fadma, Fettoosh, Fattoom.

Fatimah

Fatima, also called "Fatima Zahra" ("Fatima the shining one"), daughter of Muhammad
Fatima bint Abd al-Malik was the wife of caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz.
Fatimah Abdullah, Malaysian politician
Fatma Omar An-Najar, Palestinian
Fatimah Baeshen, Saudi Arabian government official
Fatimah Baraghani, better known as Táhirih, influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran
Fatimah bint Amr, grandmother of Muhammad
Fatimah bint Asad, Muhammad's aunt, the mother of fourth Rashidun ('rightly guided') caliph Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima Zahra
Fatimah bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn bin Ali
Fatimah bint Hizam, the second wife of Ali, cousin of Muhammad
Fatimah bint al-Khattab, sister of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and an early follower of Muhammad
Fatimah bint Muhammad al-Taymi, was the wife of al-Mansur (r. 754–775) and mother of prince Sulayman.
Fatimah bint Harun al-Rashid, daughter of Caliph Harun al-Rashid and wife of Ja'far ibn Musa al-Hadi.
Fatimah bint Musa, daughter of Musa al-Kadhim and sister of Ali al-Ridha, two of the Twelve Imams
Fatimah bint al-Fath ibn Khaqan, also known as Fatimah Khatun bint al-Fath was the spouse of Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tazz (r. 866–869). She was the daughter of Abbasid official al-Fath ibn Khaqan.
Fatimah binte Sulaiman, Singaporean merchant and philanthropist
Fatimah el-Sharif, queen consort of Libya
Fatimah Khatun, was the wife of Caliph al-Muqtafi (r. 1136–1160)
Fatimah Busu, Malaysian novelist, short-story writer, and academic.
Fatimah Hashim, Malaysian cabinet minister
Fatimah Jackson, American biologist and anthropologist
Fatimah Lateef, Singaporean politician and member of the People's Action Party
Fatimah Mansour, Saudi footballer
Fatimah Rohani binti Ismail, known professionally as Emma Maembong, a Malaysian actress and model
Sayyida Fatimah el-Sharif (1911–2009), queen consort of King Idris of the Kingdom of Libya
Fatimah Tuggar, Nigerian multimedia artist

Fátima

Fátima Aburto Baselga, Spanish physician and politician
Fátima Acuña, Paraguayan handball player
Fátima Albuquerque, Mozambican journalist
Fátima Báñez, Spanish politician, economist and jurist
Fátima Barone, Uruguayan footballer
Fátima Bernardes, Brazilian journalist
Fátima Bezerra, Brazilian politician
Fátima Blázquez, Spanish cyclist
Fátima Campos Ferreira, Portuguese television presenter and journalist
Fátima Carneiro, Portuguese anatomical pathologist and cancer researcher
Fátima Choi, politician in Macau
Fátima Diame, Spanish athlete
Fátima Djarra Sani (born 1968), Guinea-Bissau feminist activist, particularly against female genital mutilation
Fátima Felgueiras, Portuguese politician
Fátima Fernández Cano, Spanish professional golfer
Fátima Ferreira, Austrian biochemist
Fátima Flórez, domestic partner of Javier Milei
Fatima Gallardo, Spanish swimmer
Fátima Gálvez, Spanish sport shooter
Fátima Gómez Montero, Mexican politician
Fátima Guedes, Brazilian singer and composer
Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
Fátima Madrid, Spanish swimmer
Fátima Mereles, Paraguayan botanist
Fátima Miranda, Spanish singer and researcher
Fátima Molina, Mexican actress
Fátima Montaño, Colombian footballer
Fátima Moreira de Melo, Dutch field hockey player
Fátima Pinto, Portuguese footballer
Fátima Ptacek, American child actress and model
Fátima Rodríguez (b. 1961), Spanish writer, translator, professor
Fátima Silva, Portuguese long-distance runner
Fátima Soares, Venezuelan politician
Fátima Veiga, Cape Verdean politician and diplomat

Fatemeh

Fatemeh Adeli, Iranian footballer
Fatemeh Ajorlou, Iranian politician
Fatemeh Alia, Iranian politician
Fatemeh Amineh, Iranian footballer
Fatemeh Amini, female religious leader of Iran
Fateme Asadi (1960 – 1984), first Iranian 'martyr' women whose body was found during post-war explorations.
Fatemeh Behboudi, Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer
Fatemeh Bodaghi, Iranian politician
Fatemeh Daneshvar, Iranian businesswoman, entrepreneur and reformist politician
Fatemeh Daqaq, Iranian Muslim narrator, Quran-ologist and Sufi
Fatemeh Dehghani, Iranian barbat and oud player
Fateme Ekhtesari, Iranian poet
Fatemeh Emdadian, Iranian sculptor
Fatemeh Geraeli, Iranian footballer
Fatemeh Ghafouri Morad, Iranian darts player
Fatemeh Ghasemi, Iranian footballer
Fatemeh Goudarzi, Iranian actress
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, former parliament deputy, member of opposition party based in US, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fatemeh Hamami, Iranian foot-and-mouth painter
Fatemeh Hashemi, Iranian actress
Fatemeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician
Fatemeh Heidari, Iranian wushu practicioner
Fatemeh Hosseini, Iranian politician
Fatemeh Jamalifar, Iranian table tennis player
Fatemeh Javadi, conservative politician and Vice President of Iran
Fatemeh Karamzadeh, Iranian sport shooter
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Iranian academic, scholar and poet
Fatemeh Khalili, Iranian handball player
Fatemeh Moghimi, Iranian engineer, entrepreneur and political activist
Fatemeh Mojallal, Iranian rower athlete
Fatemeh Moosavi, Iranian film director, photographer and scriptwriter
Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Iranian actress
Fatemeh Naghavi, Iranian actress
Fatemeh Pahlavi, Iranian royal
Fatemeh Rahbar, Iranian politician
Fatemeh Rakeei, Iranian politician
Fatemeh Rouhani, Iranian taekwondo practicioner
Fatemeh Saadati, Iranian karateka
Fatemeh Sadeghi, Iranian karateka
Fatemeh Saeidi, Iranian educator and reformist politician
Fatemeh Sepehri, Iranian activist
Fatemeh Shams, Persian contemporary poet, literary scholar and translator
Fatemeh Sharif, Iranian futsal player and coach
Fatemeh Shayan, Iranian political scientist
Fatemeh Sohrabi, Iranian footballer

Fathima

Fathima Beevi,former judge of the Supreme Court of India
Fathima Babu, Indian actress

Fatimeh

Princess Fatimeh Pahlavi (1928–1987), Iranian princess

Fatima

Fatima al-Fihriya (c. 800 - 880), Founder of the world's oldest university University of al-Qarawiyyin
Fatima al-Budeiri (1923–2009), Palestinian radio broadcaster
Fatima al-Fudayliya, 19th-century Islamic scholar
Fatima al-Samarqandi, 12th-century Hanafi Islamic scholar
Fatima al-Suqutriyya, Yemeni writer and poet
Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra (1929–2014), Moroccan princess
Fatima (d. 1246), a favorite of Mongol empress Töregene Khatun and cabinet minister
Fatima bint al-Ahmar (c. 1260–1348), a Nasrid princess in Granada, regents of sultans Muhammad IV and Yusuf I
Fatima bint al-Khattab, sister of the 2nd caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab
Fatima bint Abd al-Malik, wife of Umayyad caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
Fatima bint Amr, grandmother of Muhammad
Fatima bint Hasan, daughter of Hasan ibn Ali
Fatima bint Mohammed Al Balooshi, Bahrani politician
Fatima bint Mundhir, Hadith scholar from Medina
Fatima bint Musa, daughter of the Seventh Twelver Imam
Fatima bint Rashid Al Nuaimi, Sheikha of Fujairah
Fatima Zahra Hafdi, known as La Zarra, Canadian-Moroccan singer
Fatima Abdel Mahmoud, Sudanese politician
Fatima Abdullah Al-Mal, Qatari criminal judge
Fatima Adoum, French actress
Fatima Aghamirzayeva (born 1953), Azerbaijani business woman
Fatima Ahmed, Italian-Somali writer
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, women’s rights activist and socialist leader
Fatima Akilu, Nigerian psychologist and a public speaker
Fatima Al-Banawi, Saudi filmmaker and actress
Fatima Al Qadiri, Kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist
Fatima Al Zahraa Khachab (born 1999), Lebanese footballer
Fatima Ali, Pakistani-American chef
Fatima Ansari, Pakistani footballer
Fatima Aouam, Moroccan middle-distance runner
Fatima Azeez, Nigerian badminton player
Fatima Aziz, Afghan physician and politician
Fatima Babiker Mahmoud, Sudanese feminist
Fatima Baquiran, Filipino painter
Fatima Bara, Algerian footballer
Fatima Bashir, Nigerian judoka
Fatima Batul Mukhtar, Nigerian botanist and academic
Fatima Bedar, Algerian independence activist
Fatima Begum (disambiguation), several people
Fatima Ben Saïdane, Tunisian actress
Fatima Bernawi, Palestinian militant
Fatima Besnaci-Lancou, French writer
Fatima Beyina-Moussa, Congolese business executive
Fatima Bhutto, niece of the late Benazir Bhutto
Fatima Bio, First Lady of Sierra Leone
Fatima Boubekdi, Moroccan filmmaker
Fatima Boudouani, Algerian army officer
Fatima Boussora, Algerian handball player
Fatima Chohan, South African politician
Fatima Cody Stanford, American obesity medicine physician
Fatima Daas, French-Algerian novelist
Fatima Dahman, Yemeni sprinter
Fatima Denton, the Co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre
Fatima Deryan, Lebanese mountaineer
Fatima Dhiab, Palestinian author
Fatima Dike, South African playwright and theatre director
Fatima Djibo Sidikou, Nigerien diplomat
Fatima D'Souza, Indian actress and singer
Fatima Ebrahimi, Iranian-American physicist
Fatima Effendi, Pakistani actress and model
Fatima El-Faquir, Moroccan sprinter
Fatima El Allami, Moroccan tennis player
Fatima El Hayani, Moroccan cyclist
Fatima El Jazouli, Moroccan footballer
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, Moroccan politician
Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi, Moroccan long-distance runner
Fatima Faloye, American actress
Fatima Farheen Mirza, American author
Fatima Gallaire, French-Algerian playwright
Fatima Grimm, German translator
Fatima Hadad, Moroccan singer and artistic director
Fatima Hajaig, South African politician
Fatima Hamed, politician of Ceuta
Fatima Hassan, South African human rights lawyer
Fatima Hernadi, Moroccan actress
Fatima Houda-Pepin, Canadian politician
Fatima Ibrahim Shema, former First Lady of Katsina State
Fatima Jamal, American artist
Fatima Jebli Ouazzani, Moroccan film director
Fatima Jibrell, Goldman Environmental Prize-winning Somali environmentalist
- Fatima Jinnah Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi
Fatima Kuinova, Soviet-Bukharan Jewish singer and "Honored Artist of the USSR"
Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Nigerian diplomat
Fatima Lolo, Nigerian musical artist
Fatima Manji, English TV journalist and newsreader
Fatima Marouan, Moroccan politician and physician
Fatima Massaquoi, Liberian educator
Fatima Meer, South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist
Fatima Mohamed Dos Santos, Spanish politician
Fatima Mohammed Habib, Nigerian social entrepreneur
Fatima Mokhtari, Algerian artistic gymnast
Fatima Moreira de Melo, Dutch field hockey player
Fatima Mujib Bilqees, Pakistani parasitologist and helminthologist
Fatima Naoot (born 1964), Egyptian poet and journalist
Fatima Naqvi, American literary and film scholar
Fatima Payman, Australian politician
Fatima Rainey, Swedish singer
Fatima Rama, Papua New Guinean footballer
Fatima Regragui, Moroccan actress
Fatima Robinson, American choreographer
Fatima Rushdi, Egyptian actress
Fatima Saad, Syrian actress
Fatima Sacko, Guinean basketball player
Fatima Sadiqi, Moroccan linguist
Fatima Sana, Pakistani cricketer
Fatima Sana Shaikh, Indian actress
Fatima Seedat, South African feminist, Islamic scholar and women's rights activist
Fatima Sekouane, Algerian footballer
Fatima Shah, Pakistani gynaecologist, social worker and educator
Fatima Shaik, Indian-American writer
Fatima Sharafeddine, Lebanese writer and editor
Fatima Sheikh, 19th-century Indian educator's and social reformer
Fatima Siad, Somali fashion model
Fatima Djibo Sidikou, Nigerian diplomat
Fatima Sughra Begum, Pakistan movement activist
Fatima Surayya Bajia, Pakistani writer
Fatima Tabaamrant, Moroccan musical artist
Fatima Tagnaout, Moroccan footballer
Fatima Tahir, Nigerian academician
Fatima Talib, Sudanese educator and women’s rights activist
Fatima Tihihit, Moroccan singer
Fatima Trotta, Italian actress
Fatima Waziri-Azi, Nigerian pharmacist and professor
Fatima Whitbread, British former javelin thrower and multiple medal-winner
Fatima Yasmin, Bangladeshi bureaucrat and vice-president of the Asian Development Bank
Fatima Yusuf, Nigerian track-and-field athlete
Fatima Yvelain, French long-distance runner
Fatima Zahra Bennacer, Moroccan actress
Fatima Zaidi, Canadian entrepreneur
Fatima Zakaria, Indian journalist
Fatima Zohra Ardjoune, Algerian army general
Fatima Zohra Cherif, Algerian volleyball player
Fatima Zohra Gharbi, Moroccan footballer
Fatima-Zohra Oukazi, Algerian volleyball player

Fatma

Fatma Abdulhabib Fereji, Tanzanian politician
Fatma Agrebi, Tunisian volleyball player
Fatma Ali (born 1950), Tanzanian politician
Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862–1936), Turkish novelist and columnist
Fatma Al-Nabhani, Omani tennis player
Fatma Ali, Tanzanian politician
Fatma Aly, Egyptian basketball player
Fatma Atalar (born 1988), Turkish handball player
Fatma Ay (born 1992), Turkish handball player
Fatma Aydemir, German author and journalist
Fatma Begum, film actress and director from India
Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, Turkish politician
Fatma Beyaz, Turkish volleyball player
Fatma Bouri, Turkish handball player
Fatma Boussaha, Tunisian Mezwed singer
Fatma Bucak, Turkish contemporary artist
Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu (1972–2009), Turkish harpist and university lecture for music
Fatma Danabaş (born 1983), Turlsh para archer
Fatma Demir, Turkish long-distance runner
Fatma Ekenoğlu (born 1956), Turkish Cypriot politician
Fatma El Mehdi, Sahrawi activist
Fatma El Sharnouby, Egyptian middle-distance runner
Fatma Gadri, Azerbaijani theatre actress
Fatma Girik (1942–2022), Turkish actress and politician
Fatma Gül Güler, Turkish Paralympic goalball player
Fatma Gül Sakızcan, Turkish handball player
Fatma Güldemet Sarı, Turkish politician
Fatma Işık (born 1991), Turkish-German footballer
Fatma Hikmet İşmen (1918–2006), Turkish agricultural engineer, politician and former senator
Fatma Işık, Turkish-German footballer
Fatma Jynge, Norwegian architect and politician
Fatma Kachroudi, Tunisian Paralympian athlete
Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet, Turkish politician
Fatma Kara (born 1991), Turkish footballer
Fatma Khanum Kamina, Azerbaijani poet
Fatma Koşer Kaya (born 1968), Dutch politician
Fatma Kurtulan (born 1964), Turkish politician
Fatma Lanouar, Tunisian runner
Fatma Mehraliyeva, Azerbaijani singer and actress
Fatma Moalla, Tunisian mathematician
Fatma Mohamed, Romanian actress
Fatma Moussa, Egyptian academic, translator and literary critic
Fatma Müge Göçek, Turkish sociologist
Fatma Mukhtarova (1893–1972), Azerbaijani opera singer
Fatma Neslişah, paternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdülmecid II
Fatma Nur Yavuz, Turkish badminton player
Fatma Omar, Egyptian powerlifter
Fatma Özlem Tursun (born 1988), Turkish female football referee and former women's footballer
Fatma Pesend Hanım Efendi (1876–1924), wife of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II
Fatma Rashed, Egyptian rower
Fatma Şahin (born 1966), Turkish politician
Fatma Şahin (footballer) (born 1990), Turkish footballer
Fatma Said, Egyptian singer
Fatma Salman Kotan (born 1980), Turkish politician
Fatma Samoura (born 1962), United Nations official from Senegal
Fatma Serpil Alpman, Turkish diplomat
Fatma Sfar-Ben-Chker (born 1994), Tunisian handball player
Fatma Shanan, Israeli painter
Fatma Songül Gültekin (born 1997), Turkish hockey player and former footballer
Fatma Sultan, several Ottoman princesses
Fatma Toptaş, Turkish actress
Fatma Turgut, Turkish musician
Fatma Uruk (born 1988), Turkish freediver
Fatma Yazıcı, Turkish businesswoman
Fatma Yousif al-Ali (born 1953), Kuwaiti journalist and short story writer
Fatma Zahra Djouad, Algerian volleyball player
Fatma Zohra Ksentini, Algerian politician
Fatma-Zohra Oukazi (born 1984), Algerian volleyball player
Fatma Zohra Zamoum, Algerian writer and filmmaker
Fatma Zouhour Toumi, Tunisian javelin thrower
Kara Fatma (1888–1955), Turkish heroine
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Algerian activist
Melda Fatma İdrisoğlu (born 1989), Turkish water polo player

Fadime

Notes and References

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Book: A World of Baby Names . Teresa Norman . 11 . 2003 . The Berkley Publishing Group. 9780399528941 .
Book: The New Age Baby Name Book . Workman Publishing . Sue Browder . registration . 101 . 1997. 9780761102328 .
Book: A World of Baby Names . Teresa Norman . 11 . 2003 . The Berkley Publishing Group. 9780399528941 .