Given nameFeminineAI-aggregated

Fatuma

/fah-TOO-mah/

Meaning

abundance

A variant of the Arabic name Fatimah, it is widely used among Swahili coast people to signify fertility and wealth. The name is also associated with the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.

Who carries it

🇰🇪 🇹🇿 🇲🇿Swahili Coast

Provenance

generated: 2026-07-04
source: LLM aggregation pipeline (llama-3.3-70b-versatile via Groq, 2026-07-04); unverified, awaiting community affirmation.

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