Nehemias
Nehemias was given to 111 boys in 2025, #1,550 among boys’ names; 1,891 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Nehemias and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nehemias by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nehemias?
#1,550 among boys’ names, 2025
Nehemias rose from #1,777 in 2015 to #1,550 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 44.9 to 65.0 per million.
111 babies in 2025, the peak
Nehemias peaked in 2025, when 111 boys were given it, #1,550 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 103 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 111 | #1,550 | 65.0 |
| 2024 | 103 | #1,648 | 59.8 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,691 | 59.0 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,016 | 43.5 |
| 2021 | 86 | #1,821 | 49.2 |
| 2020 | 84 | #1,796 | 48.7 |
| 2019 | 102 | #1,619 | 56.8 |
| 2018 | 100 | #1,637 | 55.1 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,592 | 55.1 |
| 2016 | 89 | #1,749 | 46.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,777 | 44.9 |
| 2014 | 74 | #1,952 | 38.5 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,218 | 31.2 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,373 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,013 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,617 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,736 | 22.7 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,663 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,328 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,029 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,829 | 19.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,543 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,925 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,739 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,685 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,017 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,941 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,342 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,541 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,838 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,018 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,459 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,656 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,526 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,383 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,074 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,715 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,988 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,296 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,607 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,056 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,156 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,960 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,958 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,291 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,630 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,994 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nehemias a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nehemias has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nehemias: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nehemias, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,891 Americans ever recorded as Nehemias. The median Nehemias alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,642 people named Nehemias (10 women and girls, 1,632 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 119 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 561 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nehemias born?
The states with the most babies named Nehemias are Texas, California and Florida, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,391 | 1.2× |
| California | 13 | #1,407 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,043 | 1.1× |
| New York | 9 | #1,264 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #984 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,319 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,137 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,414 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,208 | 0.2× |
Where Nehemias is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nehemias is most over-represented in Texas: since 1968 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nehemias with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nehemias
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 Nehemias and names like it
- Compare Nehemias and YousufBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNehemias peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nehemias since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Nehemias.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nehemias alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.