Fatemeh
Just 61 women in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborn girls given it: most Poles have never met a Fatemeh. The name carries the sense of "one who abstains", the restrained one.
Fatemeh Pronunciation
Fatemeh is pronounced fah-TE-mekh (/faˈtɛmɛx/).
What Fatemeh means
Where Fatemeh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fatemeh reaches Polish through Arabic, where it ranks among the most common names given to women. In Arabic it belongs to Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and that link carried it across continents. The root recorded here is Hebrew.
Its meaning is one who abstains, in Polish powstrzymująca się. The sense describes a person who pulls back from plenty, who chooses less over more. Read that way, the name honours restraint. A bearer keeps herself in check before anyone asks.
Fatemeh holds no Polish diminutive of its own. On a school register it stands in full, with none of the soft endings that turn Katarzyna into Kasia. A teacher reads it once and the name stays whole. What lasts is the sense given here, one who abstains.
How many people are named Fatemeh
1 in 369571 women in Poland is named Fatemeh. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4698 among female names.