Faten
Just 13 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet a Faten, and no girls have been given it this century. An Arabic name meaning grace and allure.
Faten Pronunciation
Faten is pronounced FAH-ten (/ˈfatɛn/).
What Faten means
Where Faten comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Faten reaches Polish registers from Arabic, where فاتن (fātin) describes a person who charms or captivates. The word is an active participle from a root tied to fascination. Its short meaning, charming and alluring, sits close to the literal sense rather than arriving as a later gloss.
The best documented bearer is Faten Hamama, the Egyptian actress who lived from 1931 to 2015 and earned the title Lady of the Arabic Screen. She proves the name real. On a Polish class register, Faten marks a family with Arabic roots.
No standard diminutive travels with it into Polish. There is no Polish name-day for Faten, so an imieniny would follow the family's own calendar. The name stays short. Its meaning, urok and wdzięk, points back to fātin, the one who charms.
How many people are named Faten
1 in 1734141 women in Poland is named Faten. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13297 among female names.