Jemiah
Jemiah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,938 among girls’ names; 321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jemiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jemiah?
#15,938 among girls’ names, 2025
Jemiah fell from #15,312 in 2015 to #15,938 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
24 babies in 2012, the peak
Jemiah peaked in 2012, when 24 babies were given it (18 girls, #6,976 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,938 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,565 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #11,211 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,109 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,239 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,312 | 5 | #12,943 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,758 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,976 | 6 | #11,430 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,973 | 6 | #11,467 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,491 | 6 | #11,623 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 23 | #6,024 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,741 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,855 | 7 | #10,056 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,455 | 6 | #10,684 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,260 | 10 | #7,216 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,747 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,513 | 5 | #11,484 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,006 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,240 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,455 | 5 | #10,652 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,626 | 5 | #10,358 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #6,889 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,049 | 6 | #8,388 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,486 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,718 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,175 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,081 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jemiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 321 Americans recorded as Jemiah, 67% are girls and 33% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jemiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jemiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 316 Americans named Jemiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 408 people named Jemiah (249 women and girls, 159 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 299 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,434 babies since 1880, Jemiah is the fifth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 394 babies (1.3%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Jemiah and names like it
- Compare Jemiah and JemmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJemiah peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Jemiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jemiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.