Nehemiah — #424 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nehemiah

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,045 babies named Nehemiah between 1886 and 2024, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nehemiah currently holds the #424 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 932 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nehemiah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 8,922 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Nehemiah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,291 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Nehemiah in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nehemiah 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 21,045 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.