Nemiah
Nemiah was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 310 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nemiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nemiah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,603, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 2010, the peak
Nemiah peaked in 2010, when 18 babies were given it (12 boys, #6,963 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 8 | #9,603 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,837 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,975 | |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,682 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,992 | 7 | #10,403 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,958 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,779 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,389 | 12 | #6,963 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,607 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,884 | 7 | #10,684 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #17,005 | 5 | #13,812 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,139 | 5 | #13,420 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,878 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,067 | 5 | #12,176 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,822 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,919 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,258 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,224 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,907 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,679 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,618 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,235 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,417 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,758 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,893 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #3,126 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,855 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 6 | #3,361 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 6 | #3,412 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 7 | #3,094 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,921 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #4,131 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 6 | #3,647 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,452 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,554 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,768 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,710 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,449 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,780 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,392 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,765 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 7 | #2,826 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nemiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 310 Americans recorded as Nemiah, 26% are girls and 74% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nemiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nemiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 194 Americans named Nemiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 276 people named Nemiah (89 women and girls, 187 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% 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.
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 22,990 babies since 1880, Nemiah is the second most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 773 babies recorded by SSA was a Nemiah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Nemiah and names like it
- Compare Nemiah and NehemiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNemiah peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Nemiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nemiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.