Jemimah
#6,421 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jemimah has been given to 562 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #6,421 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 31 recorded.
Babies named Jemimah, 2025
1 in 184,000
Jemimah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jemimah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 89,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,421
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jemimah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jemimah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jemimahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jemimah was born before 2015 — so the typical Jemimah is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 562
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (256).
Is Jemimah 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
- −1,714
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,608
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,888
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 58.1%
- Peak was 2015 (31)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.6% average annual change
Spellings of Jemimah
Jemimah is not the most common spelling — Jemma is, with 32.5% against Jemimah's 2.3%.
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.
Where Jemimah is used
Across 1910–2025, Jemimah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 647,752 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jemimah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jemimah around the world
Where Jemimah 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,315in 2025
- Scotland2024–2025#632in 2025
- France1996–2021#6,903in 2021
- Canada2006–2024#1,968in 2024
- South Australia1976–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jemimah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jemimah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jemimah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.