Petimat
The name means "a woman of beauty". In Poland it stays rare: only about a hundred women carry it, and no girl has been given it since records begin in 2000.
Petimat Pronunciation
Petimat is pronounced pe-TEE-maht (/pɛˈtimat/).
What Petimat means
Where Petimat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Petimat comes from the Caucasus. Among Chechens and Ingush it is the local form of Fatima, the Arabic name that moved north with Islam. The languages there favour a "p" where Arabic keeps an "f", so Fatima shifted into Petimat. The related Patimat and Batimat grew from the same root.
The short meaning given here is "beautiful woman", piękna kobieta. That sense attached to the name later. Fatima in Arabic points somewhere else, toward one who weans or abstains, and the reading of beauty came after, among the people who used it daily.
On a Polish class register, Petimat stands out beside the Zuzannas and Amelias. A teacher might pause once before reading it aloud. The girl who carries it holds a name that crossed from the North Caucasus, kept its "p", and arrived meaning piękna kobieta.
How many people are named Petimat
1 in 221018 women in Poland is named Petimat. 102 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3409 among female names.