66%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage Arabic, Malay, Indonesian Scripts فاطمة(Arabic) Pronounced Pron. FA-tee-mah(Arabic) [key·IPA] Meaning & History Means "to abstain" in Arabic. Fatimah was a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and the wife of Ali, the fourth caliph. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details VariantsFatima, Fatma(Arabic) Other Languages & CulturesFatma(Azerbaijani) Fathimath(Dhivehi) Faɗimatu(Hausa) Fatma(Kurdish) Fatemah(Persian) Fadumo(Somali) Fatma, Fadime, Fatoş(Turkish) Fatima(Urdu) Patigül, Patime(Uyghur) Fatimata, Fatimatou, Fatoumata, Fatou(Western African) PopularityDetails Last ranked #345 in 2019 England and Wales People think this name isRate·Details classic formal natural wholesome strong refined strange serious nerdy Entry updated November 16, 2019