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Fatimah name meaning

“from a root meaning to wean or abstain”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
F
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1940s: 23.4%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s23.4%
1950s18.1%
1960s11.1%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
19

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Fatimah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: FArabic origin

Fatimah is a girl's name from Arabic, derived from a root meaning 'to wean' or 'to abstain'.

What does Fatimah mean?

From a root meaning to wean or abstain

In Malay: daripada akar kata yang bermaksud menyapih atau berpantang

Sources (2)

About the name Fatimah

Fatimah is the Malay spelling of the Arabic name Fāṭimah, which comes from the root faṭama, 'to wean' or 'to abstain'. The name is widely known as that of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 10,827 baby girls. Fatima and Fathimah are other common spellings.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesFa-ti-mah
First letterMalay Names starting with F
Arabic scriptفاطمة

Fatimah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 6,036 · 23.4%
1950s
Girl: 10,827 · 18.1%
1960s
Girl: 7,374 · 11.1%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Fatimah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Fatimah

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Fatima · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: فاطمة · en.wiktionary.org · origin

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