Fathima
Just 15 women in Poland carry Fathima, so most Poles have never met one. The name is Arabic at root, from a word meaning to abstain or to wean.
Fathima Pronunciation
What Fathima means
Where Fathima comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fathima comes from Arabic, a spelling of Fatimah shaped by how the name sounds in Kerala and Sri Lanka. The root behind it is f-t-m, the verb faṭama, to wean a child from the breast or to abstain. From that verb the short meaning follows: one who holds back, one who is restrained. In Polish, powstrzymująca się, powściągliwa.
The most documented bearer is Fatimah bint Muhammad, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Around her the sense of the name grew. People read it as a woman weaned from want, held apart from ordinary craving. That reading came later. The bare root says only weaning.
On a Polish class register, Fathima now sits beside Zofia and Amelia, kept by families who moved from Kerala or Colombo and held onto the spelling with the h. In Poland the form Fatima, without the h, turns up more often. The given fields list no diminutive. The name stays whole. What it says stays plain: to wean, to abstain.
How many people are named Fathima
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Fathima. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12013 among female names.
Fathima as a middle name
Fathima is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 63/37 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2557th, between Fani (9) and Felisa (9).
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#2555 Ezgi9
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#2556 Fani9
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#2557 Fathima9
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#2558 Felisa9
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#2559 Filippa9