Fatou

“Short form of Fatoumata/Fatimata; a West African name related to Fatima” — West African / Sub-Saharan African origin

Girl's name · #2968 in the US (2025) · Trending

Fatou is climbing: on the charts since 1991, it is ranked #2968 in 2025, with about 60 girls given the name last year. Roughly 1,200 have carried it all-time. In New York it runs about 5× its national rate.

Around the world: about 1 in 1,900 girls in France (2025) · about 1 in 12,000 girls in Canada (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 2 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Fatous

Fatou Bensouda — Gambian lawyer and judge, Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2012–2021)
Fatou Diome — French-Senegalese writer
Fatou Jallow — Gambian beauty pageant contestant
Fatou Keïta — Ivorian writer
Fatou Jeng — Gambian climate activist,focused on education, conservation and planting trees

What Fatous become

Among 130 notable people named Fatou:

Sports figures appear 1.82× more often than among typical names — e.g. Fatou Tiyana, athletics competitor.

Similar names: Fatoumata · Koda · Faiga · Lou · Aminata · Sequoia

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