Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Fathima Name Meaning in Islam
The pure.
- Meaning
- The pure. South Indian Muslim spelling of Fatima. Dominant in Kerala (8M Muslims), Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and South Indian diaspora globally
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ف-ط-م
- Urdu
- فاطمہ
- Pronunciation
- fa-THI-ma
- Lucky number
- 9
Is Fathima an Islamic name? Yes. Fathima is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: The pure. South Indian Muslim spelling of Fatima. Dominant in Kerala (8M Muslims), Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and South Indian diaspora globally. It was carried by Fathima Beevi. Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and claim nothing that belongs to God alone, and this name meets both.
Read the letter-by-letter reading ↓Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
ف-ط-م. The root f-t-m means to wean, to separate from milk, to cut off. Fatima is interpreted classically as the one weaned from the Fire by God's mercy.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Fa opens, Ta-heavy is the letter of weighty purity, and Meem is love and motherhood. Final ta-marbuta seals the feminine, so the name carries an opening into pure separation that completes itself in maternal love.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
The letters in Fathima cluster around fire, the element of will, warmth, and forward motion. This is a name that leans toward decisiveness and radiance, with the courage to begin what others hesitate to. Threaded through it is Al-Fattah, the Opener, carried by a person as the will to open what was closed. A person named Fathima tends to bring warmth to a room and light to a decision.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
From the Arabic root ف-ط-م (to wean, to detach), Fathima is the South Indian Muslim spelling of Fatima. The 'th' reflects the way Malayalam, Tamil, and Sinhala scripts render the classical Arabic ta.
The name honours Fatima al-Zahra (RA), beloved daughter of the Prophet ﷺ and wife of Ali (RA), mother of Hasan and Husain (RA). The Prophet said of her: 'Fatima is a part of me; whoever angers her, angers me.' She is one of the four greatest women of all creation.
Fathima is used across Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and the South Indian Muslim diaspora, which together represent over ten million Muslims. In choosing it a family names a daughter after the Prophet's beloved in the letters of her own regional script.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Fathima Beevi . Indian jurist, first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India (1989), later Governor of Tamil Nadu
How to Pronounce Fathima
Variants of this name
For Fathima, each Latin spelling has its own AsrNaam page, with its own usage and regional context.
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They are the same name. Fathima is also written Fasima, Fatheema and Fathimah. One name, several romanisations of فَاطِمَة.
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Names sharing the ف Fa influence
Like Fathima, these names carry Fa (ف) as their leading letter influence.
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