MEANING & HISTORY
What does Fátima mean?
Fátima is a Spanish and Portuguese spelling of an Arabic name related to abstaining or weaning. The Spanish dictionary gives the Arabic borrowing, while the editorial base account checks the underlying verb.
Catholic uses can refer through the Portuguese pilgrimage town, itself carrying the Arabic name. The written accent belongs to this particular European form. Fátima should therefore be distinguished from Fatima in exact records without suggesting that one is a correction of the other.
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Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
SpanishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Arabic فَاطِمَة (fāṭima, “abstainer”).
a female given name from Arabic, used by Muslims and Roman Catholics
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People with the name Fátima
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Bernadette Romulo-Puyat
Filipino politician
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Bernadette Romulo-Puyat
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Fátima in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Fátima
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Fatima♀One who weans or abstains, from the Arabic name
- Maxima·Greatest, feminine of Maximus
- Naima♀Tranquil; happy; at ease
- Fabian♂From Roman Fabianus, derived from Fabius
- Fabián♂From the Roman family name Fabius
- Faisal♂Arbiter or one who decides
- Faith♀Faith, trust or belief
- Fauzia·Variant of Fawzia: triumph or victory
What rhymes with Fátima?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Fátima further
Follow the sources
- Wikidata given-name item Q21285936 — Fátima (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Bernadette Romulo-Puyat (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q21285936 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Fátima (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — fatima (opens in a new tab)
Consulted editorial entry, not user submissions: Arabic fatama abstain/wean; base name behind accented forms.
- Behind the Name — Fátima (opens in a new tab)
Consulted editorial accented-form entry: Portuguese town-name devotional pathway, ultimately Arabic Fatima; Spanish/Portuguese usage.