Fatih
Fatih is the Turkish word for a conqueror, from an Arabic root that runs from "to open" to "to take". Most Poles will never meet one: fewer than 200 people carry it, every one of them a man.
Fatih Pronunciation
Fatih is pronounced FAH-teekh (/ˈfatix/).
What Fatih means
Where Fatih comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fatih comes into Turkish from Arabic, where the root means to open and, from there, to conquer. The short meaning carried by everyone who bears it is plain: conqueror, or in Polish zdobywca. The name points to an act, not a mood.
Its most famous bearer fixed that meaning in place. Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453 and was known afterward as Fatih Sultan Mehmed, Mehmed the Conqueror. A whole district of Istanbul now carries the name Fatih, and the Fatih Mosque sits at its centre. So a boy called Fatih shares a word with a city.
The name stayed male and stayed close to that history. It has no diminutive or cross-gender variant on the list, and it resists being softened. In a Polish szkoła a Fatih on the class register usually marks a Turkish family, and teachers learn the meaning fast.
Parents pick many names for their sound. Fatih is picked for a word you can translate in one breath: conqueror.
How many people are named Fatih
1 in 116012 men in Poland is named Fatih. 184 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2341 among male names.
Fatih's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.