Fatima (first name)
Fatima , also Fāteme , is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Fatima , or in the exact transcription Fāṭima ( Arabic فاطمة) is an originally Arabic name that means "who has weaned (or: has weaned)". Usually it is used as a Muslim first name after Fāṭima Zahrā ("Fatima, the shining one", "shining one"), the daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammed . The Turkish and Azerbaijani variant of the name is Fatma . North African paraphrases of the name often leave out the unstressed second syllable and also translate it romanized as Fatma ; in West Africa the form Fatou occurs. The Persian description is Fatemeh and Faḍma in Kabyle among the Berbers .
The name of the Portuguese place Fátima is said to go back to a Moorish princess who bore this name. After apparitions of Mary are said to have taken place there in 1917 , the village became a popular place of pilgrimage and the apparition as Maria de Fátima or Nossa Senhora de Fátima was venerated. From a total of a popular female first name, usually in association with the name Maria (ie Portuguese developed in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Ibero-Romance languages Maria Fátima , Spanish María Fátima , Catalan Maria Fàtima ), similar to the name of the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes also only after the Marian apparitions there became a female first name in Spanish-speaking countries.
The surname Mǎ (馬) is a common first name among Chinese Muslims and is considered a derivative of the name Fatima.
Name bearers
- Fatima bint Muhammad (606–632), the name of the most important daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammed
- Fātima bint Mūsā (790–817), the name of the most important saint in Iran
- Fatima alias Maria Aurora Spiegel , one of the mistresses of the Polish King August II and mother of two of his children
- Fátima Báñez (* 1967), Spanish politician (Partido Popular)
- Fatima Bhutto (* 1982), Pakistani journalist and writer
- Fatima Grimm (1934–2013), German translator, author and speaker on the subject of Islam
- Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim (1934–2017), Sudanese human rights activist, women's rights activist and communist party activist
- Fatima Meer (1928–2010), South African sociologist, author, human rights and anti-apartheid activist
- Fatima Mernissi (1940–2015), Moroccan sociologist and author
- Fatima Moreira de Melo (* 1978), former Dutch hockey player and today's presenter and poker player
- Fatima el-Sharif (1911–2009), Queen of Libya from 1951 to 1969
- Fatima Djibo Sidikou , Nigerien diplomat
- Fatima El-Tayeb (* 1966), German historian and screenwriter
In the notation Fātemeh :
- Fatemeh Karroubi (* 1949), Iranian politician
- Fatemeh Mahdavian (* 1970), Iranian grass skier
- Fatemeh Motamed-Aria (born 1961), Iranian actress