Hemi
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hemi has been given to 288 babies in the U.S. since 2004. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2023, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% boys, 35% girls all-time.
Babies named Hemi, 2024
1 in 334,000
Hemi over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Hemi over time
In 2025, Hemi went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Hemi?
Hemi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 334,000
- 10 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 172,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 231,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hemi sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hemi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hemis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hemi was born before 2016 — so the typical Hemi is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 186
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Hemi rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2023 (16)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Spellings of Hemi
Hemi is not the most common spelling — Levi is, with 46.6% against Hemi's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Hemi around the world
Where Hemi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2016–2018#4,749in 2018
- South Australia1997–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Hemi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Hemi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hemi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.