Fun Facts About the Name Fatiha
- 311 babies named Fatiha: U.S. records list 311 babies given the name Fatiha from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Fatiha Mean?
Fatiha is an Arabic feminine name meaning "opener" or "opening." It comes from the Arabic root f-t-ḥ, "to open," and is the feminine form of Fātiḥ, "one who opens." The same root gives Arabic words for opening and beginning, and also for conquest (a fatḥ is a victory), which is why the masculine Fātiḥ is often translated "conqueror." The feminine name keeps the sense of opening rather than the military one.
The name has the same form as al-Fātiḥa, "The Opening," the title of the first surah of the Quran. That title refers to the chapter's place at the start of the book; the personal name and the chapter title both go back to the ordinary Arabic noun fātiḥa, which means "opening," "beginning," or "preface."
Fatiha Name History & Origins
Fatiha belongs to the Arabic naming tradition, in which given names are usually ordinary words or short phrases. The noun fātiḥa - "opening," "beginning," "introduction" - is standard Arabic vocabulary, and it is the title long given to the first surah of the Quran, recited in daily prayers. A girl named Fatiha therefore carries a word that Arabic speakers meet constantly in both everyday and religious speech.
The masculine form Fātiḥ has a long history as a name and title in the Islamic world. The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, who took Constantinople in 1453, is remembered in Turkish as Fatih Sultan Mehmet, "Mehmed the Conqueror." Fatiha is the feminine counterpart of that form and is used as a girl's name in Arabic-speaking countries and in Muslim communities in Turkey, the Balkans, and South Asia.
Because the word is also a religious term, "reading the Fatiha" means reciting the first surah, often as a blessing or in remembrance of the dead in parts of the Middle East and South Asia. That practice is religious custom rather than evidence about the given name, but it shows how closely the word and the surah are linked in speech.
How Popular is the Name Fatiha?
Fatiha has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2022. Its best rank was #3,993 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #4,290 | 33 | 0.0021% |
| 2024 | #4,680 | 29 | 0.0018% |
| 2023 | #4,392 | 32 | 0.0020% |
| 2022 | #3,993 | 37 | 0.0023% |
| 2021 | #5,136 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2020 | #5,209 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2019 | #6,254 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2018 | #8,290 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2017 | #7,985 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #9,064 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2015 | #8,614 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2014 | #9,161 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2013 | #15,233 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #9,350 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2009 | #9,062 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2006 | #14,053 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #14,153 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1983 | #10,787 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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