Jemimah
Jemimah was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,421 among girls’ names; 562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jemimah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jemimah?
#6,421 among girls’ names, 2025
Jemimah fell from #4,533 in 2015 to #6,421 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 11.2 per million.
31 babies in 2015, the peak
Jemimah peaked in 2015, when 31 girls were given it, #4,533 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,421 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,707 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,305 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,383 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,766 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,813 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,705 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,498 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,862 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,776 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,533 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,539 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,065 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,449 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,584 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,268 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,221 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,738 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,201 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,448 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,456 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,215 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,201 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,369 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,285 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,180 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,156 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,947 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,005 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,165 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,691 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,879 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,353 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,014 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jemimah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jemimah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jemimah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jemimah, and how old are they?
An estimated 557 Americans named Jemimah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 641 people named Jemimah (638 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,910 babies since 1880, Jemimah is the third most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 379 babies (4.7%), again the third 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jemimah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jemimah and names like it
- Compare Jemimah and JemmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Jemimah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jemimah alive today were born 2013-2025.
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