Fatma
Read as "one who abstains", carried through Arabic and Turkish use. Fewer than 350 women in Poland go by it, so most people here will never have met one, and no newborn girls got the name last year.
Fatma Pronunciation
Fatma is pronounced FAHT-mah (/ˈfatma/).
What Fatma means
Where Fatma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fatma carries a Hebrew root under Arabic and Turkish colours. The spelling belongs to Turkish above all, where Fatma serves as the everyday form of the older Fatima. Arabic keeps the name close too, and both traditions have passed it hand to hand for a long time.
The most documented bearer stands behind it. Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, is the figure from whom the Turkish Fatma descends, and that single link helped make it one of the most common women's names in Turkey.
The short meaning is "one who abstains", a sense of restraint, of holding back rather than reaching for everything at once. Picture a Polish class register, Fatma set among the Zuzannas and Amelias, a name from further east resting easily on the line. It looks foreign and settles in fast. In Polish the meaning reads powstrzymująca się, one who holds back.
How many people are named Fatma
1 in 65344 women in Poland is named Fatma. 345 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1614 among female names.
Fatma's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Fatma as a middle name
Fatma is a first name for 345 women in Poland and a middle name for another 54, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 928th, between Verónica (55) and Justine (54).
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#926 Rajmunda55
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#927 Verónica55
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#928 Fatma54
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#929 Justine54
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#930 Mathilde54