Fatima

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latin spelling of the Arabic name فاطمة (faaTima) meaning 'to wain, to abstain' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) From the place name Fatima near Leiria in western Portugal in honour of 'Our Lady of Fatima' who in 1917 appeared to three shepherd children from Fatima [1] [2] [4] [6]

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Fatemeh
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Fatimah
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See also Fadumo

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Fatima
Genitive: Fatimas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Fatima
Genitive: Fatiman
Partitive: Fatimaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Fatima
Genitive: Fatimas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Fatima
Genitive: Fatimas

Name Day

Sweden Sweden

28 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 243 people were named Fatima (percentage of first or only given name: 30 %) [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
5114 6207 5114 6207 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
1741
n.a.
1741
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
898
n.a.
898 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
11 18
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
1789
n.a.
1789
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Fatima (f) Sources: [8][9][12][10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Fatima (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  5. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/