Fatima (given name)

"Fatima" redirects here. For the 2009 Moroccan film, see Fatima (film).

Fatmeah
Pronunciation	Arabic pronunciation: [faːtˤɪmaː]
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	one who weans an infant or one who abstains
Other names
Related names	Fatema , Fatimah, , Fadime, Fatma, Fatme, Fatemeh

Fatima (Arabic: فَاطِمَة ‎‎, Fāṭimah) is a female given name of Arabic origin, commonly used all over the Islamic world. The colloquial Arabic pronunciation of the name often omits the unstressed second syllable and renders it as Fatma when romanized.

Fatima is also used by non-Muslims: the town of Fátima in Portugal was named after a Moorish princess. It was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholic populations, particularly in the Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds.

The surname Mǎ (T: 馬; S: 马) is a common family name for Chinese Muslims, and is sometimes said to derive from the name Fatima.

Variations

The Turkish and Azeri transliteration of the name is either Fatma or Fadime. In Somali the name became Faduma. The Persian transliteration is Fatemeh and it is Faḍma in Kabyle. Spelt as Fátima, the name is also common amongst Spanish and especially Portuguese speaking peoples in Iberia as well as in the Americas.

Fátima

• Fátima Aburto Baselga, Spanish physician and politician
• Fátima Báñez, Spanish politician, economist and jurist
• Fátima Bernardes, Brazilian journalist
• Fátima Campos Ferreira, Portuguese television presenter and journalist.
• Fátima Choi, politician in Macau
• Fátima Felgueiras, Portuguese politician
• Fátima Gálvez, Spanish sport shooter
• Fátima Guedes, Brazilian singer and composer.
• Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
• Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
• Fátima Madrid, Spanish swimmer
• Fátima Miranda, Spanish singer and researcher
• Fátima Moreira de Melo, Dutch field hockey player
• Fátima Ptacek, American child actress and model
• Fátima Silva, Portuguese long-distance runner
• Fátima Veiga, Cape Verdean politician and diplomat

Fatemeh

• Fatemeh Javadi, conservative politician and Vice President of Iran, 2005 – 2009
• Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, former parliament deputy, member of opposition party based in US, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Fatima

• Fatima bint Asad, Muhammad's aunt, the mother of first Shi’a Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima Zahra
• Fatima bint Hizam, mother of Abbas ibn Ali and a wife of the first Shia Imam
• Fātima bint Mūsā, sister of Ali al-Rida
• Fatima Aouam, Moroccan middle distance runner
• Fatima Bhutto, niece of the late Benazir Bhutto
• Fatima Jibrell, Goldman Environmental Prize-winning Somali environmentalist
• Fatima Jinnah sister of Pakistan's first governor-general, Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Fatima Kuinova, Soviet-Bukharan Jewish singer and "Honored Artist of the USSR"
• Fatima Moreira de Melo, Dutch field hockey player
• Fatima Rainey, Swedish singer
• Fatima Robinson, American choreographer
• Fatima Siad, Somali fashion model
• Fatima Whitbread, British former javelin thrower and multiple medal-winner
• Miss Fatima, former British Women's Chess Champion
• Bluebeard's last wife, by legend (mainly in the English-speaking world), is known as Fatima

Fatimah

• Fatimah bint Amr, grandmother of Muhammad
• Fatimah, also called "Fatima Zahra" ("Fatima the shining one"), daughter of Muhammad
• Fatimah bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn bin Ali
• Fatimah bint al-Khattab

Fatma

• Fatma Abdulhabib Fereji, Tanzanian politician
• Fatma Abdullah (born 1980), fashion photographer from the United Arab Emirates
• Fatma Ali (born 1950), Tanzanian politician
• Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862-1936), Turkish novelist and columnist
• Fatma Al-Nabhani, Omani tennis player
• Fatma Begum, film actress and director from India
• Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu (1972-2009), Turkish harpist and university lecture for music
• Fatma Ekenoğlu (born 1956), Turkish Cypriot politician
• Fatma Gadri, Azerbaijani theatre actress
• Fatma Girik (born 1942), Turkish actress and politician
• Fatma Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Selim I
• Fatma Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I
• Fatma Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I
• Fatma Kachroudi, Tunisian Paralympian athlete
• Fatma Kara (born 1991), Turkish footballer
• Fatma Koşer Kaya (born 1968), Dutch politician
• Fatma Kurtulan (born 1964), Turkish politician
• Fatma Lanouar, Tunisian runner
• Fatma Mukhtarova (1893–1972), Azerbaijani opera singer
• Fatma Neslişah, paternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdülmecid II
• Fatma Omar An-Najar, Palestinian activist
• Fatma Özlem Tursun (born 1988), Turkish female football referee and former women's footballer
• Fatma Pesend Hanım Efendi (1876-1924), wife of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II
• Fatma Şahin (born 1966), Turkish politician
• Fatma Şahin (footballer) (born 1990), Turkish footballer
• Fatma Salman Kotan (born 1980), Turkish politician
• Fatma Samoura (born 1962), United Nations official from Senegal
• Fatma Serdar (born 1992), Turkish women's footballer
• Fatma Sfar-Ben-Chker (born 1994), Tunisian handball player
• Fatma Yousif al-Ali (born 1953), Kuwaiti journalist and short story writer
• Fatma-Zohra Oukazi (born 1984), Algerian volleyball player
• Kara Fatma (1888 -1955), Turkish heroine
• Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Algerian activist

Fadime

• Fadime Sahindal
• Fadime Suna

Fictional characters

• Fatima Blush, "Bond girl" from the movie Never Say Never Again
• Fatima Doohan, from the computer game Anachronox

See also

• Eye of Fatima
• Fatima The Gracious (book), a biography of Fatima Zahra
• Glossary of Islamic terms in Arabic