Jemiah — unisex name

What the Data Says About Jemiah

The Social Security Administration has registered 211 babies named Jemiah between 1996 and 2021, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jemiah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Jemiah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 105 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jemiah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jemiah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jemiah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 211 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.