Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Fatimata Name Meaning in Islam
Fatimata is the West African Fula and Mande form of فاطمة (Fāṭima), the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ, wife of.
- Meaning
- Fatimata is the West African Fula and Mande form of فاطمة (Fāṭima), the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ, wife of ʿAlī, mother of al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn, and one of the four greatest women named in the prophetic hadith
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ف-ط-م
- Urdu
- فاطمہ
- Pronunciation
- fa-ti-MA-ta
- Lucky number
- 9
Is Fatimata an Islamic name? Yes. Fatimata is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Fatimata is the West African Fula and Mande form of فاطمة (Fāṭima), the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ, wife of ʿAlī, mother of al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn, and one of the four greatest women named in the prophetic hadith. It was carried by Fatimata Touré. 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 the breast, to be cut off from worldly entanglement. Fatima is the one weaned, classically read as protected from the Fire.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Fa opens the breath of naming, Ta-heavy is weighty purity, and Meem is love and motherhood. Final ta-marbuta seals the feminine, so the name traces an opening into pure separation that completes itself as motherly love.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
The letters in Fatimata 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 Fatimata carries the kind of fire people gather around, not the kind that burns them.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Fatimata is the West African Fula and Mande form of فاطمة (Fāṭima), the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ, wife of ʿAlī, mother of al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn, and one of the four greatest women named in the prophetic hadith. The Wolof, Mandinka, Fulfulde, and Bambara phonologies of West Africa take Arabic feminine names ending in tāʾ marbūṭa and add a final -ta or -tu, producing Fatimata, Khadijatu, Aminata, Aishatu, names that mark a French-Wolof-Fulfulde domestication of the Arabic original.
The name belongs first to Fāṭima az-Zahrāʾ (the Resplendent), whom the Prophet ﷺ called sayyidatu nisāʾi l-jannah, 'the mistress of the women of Paradise.' She was the youngest of his daughters, the only one to survive him, and the matriarch of every Sayyid descendant of the Prophet through her two sons. Fatimata is among the most common feminine names in Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and the West African diaspora. Notable bearers include the Malian historian Fatimata Mariko and the Senegalese activist Fatimata Sy.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Fatimata Touré . Malian women's-rights activist, founder of GREFFA (Groupe de Recherche, d'Études, de Formation Femme-Action)
How to Pronounce Fatimata
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What does the name Fatimata mean?
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