name
Fatou
fah-TOO
fɑˈtuːListen
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Syllable breakdown
Fatou
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Soninke (West Africa)
- Meaning
- a Soninke and wider West African feminine name, the local phonological adaptation of the Arabic Fatima, meaning one who abstains from what is forbidden or the weaned one; Fatou is among the most common women's names across the Soninke diaspora and throughout Senegambia, and its ubiquity reflects the deep integration of Islamic naming traditions into West African social life over more than a millennium; women named Fatou carry the spiritual associations of the Prophet's daughter — devotion, patience, dignity, and the quiet centrality of a woman who holds a family together from within
- Gender
- female
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