Fati̇h
From Arabic through Turkish: the root means "to open," and from forcing a city's gates open came its sense, conqueror. Just over 200 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Fati̇h Pronunciation
Fati̇h is pronounced FAHTİKH (/fati̇x/).
What Fati̇h means
Where Fati̇h comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Fatih comes from Arabic, from the root f-t-ḥ, meaning to open. From that opening grew a second sense, conqueror, the one who forces a city's gates. Turkish took the word and held on to the harder meaning.
Its most famous bearer is Mehmed II, the Ottoman sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453 at the age of twenty-one. Afterward people called him Fatih Sultan Mehmed, Mehmed the Conqueror. In Istanbul a whole district still carries the name, and a bridge across the Bosphorus does too.
Fatih has no diminutives or variants in the Polish record. It arrives whole. On a school register it would stand out at once, a single Turkish word among the Kacpers and Julias. The meaning behind it stays fixed. In Polish it reads as zdobywca, zwycięzca, the one who wins the ground he stands on.
How many people are named Fati̇h
1 in 106200 men in Poland is named Fati̇h. 201 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2215 among male names.
Fati̇h as a middle name
Fati̇h is a first name for 201 men in Poland and a middle name for another 46, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1129th, between Davide (46) and German (46).
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#1127 Ayman46
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#1128 Davide46
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#1129 Fatih46
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#1130 German46
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#1131 Honorat46