Kemyah
Kemyah was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 111 Americans have been recorded with it between 1999 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kemyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kemyah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,039, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2008, the peak
Kemyah peaked in 2008, when 16 girls were given it, #7,927 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,039 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,832 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,514 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,596 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,256 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,766 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,993 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,666 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,927 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,541 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 12 | #9,599 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,472 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,809 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,611 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kemyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kemyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kemyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kemyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 110 Americans named Kemyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 14 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Kemyah is a less common spelling of Kemya: SSA has recorded 111 Kemyah and 605 Kemya since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kemyah
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.