She’s deeply spiritual in two major religions – and undeniably pretty, too.
Thanks to Sassy for suggesting Fatima as Name of the Day.
Fatima conjures up images of the Middle East.
Name of the Day: Fatima
on Jun 29, 2009
on Jun 29, 2009
She’s deeply spiritual in two major religions – and undeniably pretty, too.
Thanks to Sassy for suggesting Fatima as Name of the Day.
Fatima conjures up images of the Middle East.
Is this name related at all to Famke? As in the Dutch actress Famke Janssen, of the X-Men movies?
I too went to high school with a girl named this! Sadly, her last name was H0. Lucky for her, she was thin as a rail and rather shy.
It’s one I want to like, and in fact I do appreciate it’s history and everything…but I wouldn’t be able to ever get over the Fat- beginning.
Make that another one who doesn’t like the “Fat-” beginning!
I don’t like it 🙂
I went to school with a girl from Spain by this name. It always made me cringe when the other Spanish students would call her Fat or Fati. It was perfectly normal for them because I guess that is the logical nickname in Spanish. Still, if you are an English speaker its not the most appealing. Since I am Catholic, I do tend to associate this name with Our Lady of Fatima v. the wife of Mohammed. I do like its cross-cultural potential even if the sound is rather unappealing to my ears.
Fatima was the daughter of Muhammad (pbuh) not his wife.
Unfortunately I can’t get past the “fat” part of Fatima. I think this would be difficult for a middle school aged girl to wear in the US – kids are mean!!
There is also “Fadime”, the turkish version on Fatima. There are also the nicknames Fadik and Fatos (pronounced Fa-tosh).
In high school, I knew a Portuguese girl a few years older than me named Fatima; we all pronounced it wrong, FAT-ima instead of Fah-TIMA. The cross-cultural barriers for this name, combined with the f-a-t beginning (yes, I am that superficial) make this name tough to rally for.
Oh I hear you, Allison! It is lovely, but a) it reads so strongly Muslim to me, despite my Catholic roots and b) the F-A-T thing does bother me. My neighbor (from Ecuador) calls his son Gordo – fatty. It’s a perfectly normal term of endearment – and his kiddo is actually kind of on the small side – but it still throws me every time I hear it.
Fatima is a beautiful name – I love its sound. Every time I meet a Fatima, it strikes me again that it’s such a pretty name. While it’s not a name I’d use for my child (let’s just say I don’t strongly associate with any religion), I love it on others’ kids.