Girls' name · since 2012
Jemmah
Jemmah has 48 recorded births since 2012 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2012 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 48
- total births
- 2012–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 75%
- born in that decade
Jemmah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 48 recorded since 2012.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jemmah has been recorded 48 times among girls since 2012, though it is not among the currently most-used girls names, with its heaviest use in the 2010s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2025.
- 48 total births
- 2012–2025 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 75% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jemmah's 48 recorded births place it above 51% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jemmah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jemmah's SSA record in two at 2018 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2018, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2012 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jemmah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2025
- Peak year (2012)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2025.
48 total births across 14 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 9 births in a single year.
Jemmah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Jemmah's strongest decade.
36 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 75% of all-time use.
Jemmah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
36 births
- 2020s 12
2020s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 36 births (75% of all-time use).
Jemmah decade highlights
- Peak decade 36 births
- Runner-up 12 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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What to do with Jemmah's data
- Jemmah's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (36 total births) through the 2020s (12) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2012–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jemmah: Baby Name Since 2012 - 48 Births, Peak 2012." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jemmah. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jemmah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.
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