Thirty years of Fatima
Fatima in numbers
Fatima has climbed from 153 girls in 1996 to 598 in 2025, close to its peak of 619 in 2024. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2021 and 2024, from 397 to 619. It ranked 253rd in 1996, reached 76th in 2024 and ranks 79th now. On average it was given to 172 girls a year in the late 1990s, 303 in the 2000s, 485 in the 2010s and 524 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year-3%619 to 598
- 5 years+24%483 to 598
- 10 years+21%495 to 598
- 20 years+96%305 to 598
- Since 1996×4153 to 598
- Total, 1996 to 202511,710girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 79 · ONS · 619 in 2024
Rank 157 · NRS · 22 in 2024
Fewer than 3 babies, or not published · NISRA
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | 598 | -3% | 1 in 476 |
| 2024 | =76 | 619 | +13% | 1 in 468 |
| 2023 | 85 | 550 | +11% | 1 in 524 |
| 2022 | =99 | 497 | +25% | 1 in 593 |
| 2021 | 130 | 397 | -18% | 1 in 768 |
| 2020 | 104 | 483 | +2% | 1 in 620 |
| 2019 | 108 | 472 | +5% | 1 in 659 |
| 2018 | 121 | 449 | -10% | 1 in 712 |
| 2017 | 110 | 499 | +4% | 1 in 663 |
| 2016 | 122 | 479 | -3% | 1 in 708 |
| 2015 | 118 | 495 | -12% | 1 in 686 |
| 2014 | 102 | 562 | +16% | 1 in 602 |
| 2013 * | =112 | 484 | -4% | 1 in 706 |
| 2012 | 113 | 506 | +6% | 1 in 702 |
| 2011 | 122 | 479 | +12% | 1 in 737 |
| 2010 | 136 | 426 | +4% | 1 in 827 |
| 2009 | 134 | 410 | -3% | 1 in 839 |
| 2008 | 121 | 424 | +10% | 1 in 815 |
| 2007 | =139 | 387 | +17% | 1 in 867 |
| 2006 | =160 | 331 | +9% | 1 in 988 |
| 2005 | =167 | 305 | +7% | 1 in 1,033 |
| 2004 | =174 | 284 | +3% | 1 in 1,096 |
| 2003 | =177 | 275 | +23% | 1 in 1,102 |
| 2002 | =193 | 223 | +21% | 1 in 1,301 |
| 2001 | 218 | 185 | -8% | 1 in 1,567 |
| 2000 | 210 | 202 | +17% | 1 in 1,459 |
| 1999 | 236 | 173 | +1% | 1 in 1,749 |
| 1998 | 239 | 171 | -11% | n/a |
| 1997 | =219 | 192 | +25% | 1 in 1,633 |
| 1996 | 253 | 153 | 1 in 2,065 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. 1 in X is not shown for girls in 1998: one monthly total is missing from the ONS girls’ 1998 file. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate