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Jemina

Girls' name

Form of Jemima

Jemina has been given to 111 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1994, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Jemina, 2018

1 in 703,000

Jemina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jemina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jemima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jemina means

Jemina is a form of Jemima.

Origin, language, and formation

Jemina is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jemima.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Jemina is pronounced /ˈjeminɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 111 girls were recorded with the name Jemina between 1981 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1994; its best national rank was #7,106 in 1982.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jemina?

Jemina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jemina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jemina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeminas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jemina was born before 2000 — so the typical Jemina is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
111
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Jemina 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (10)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,106
1982

Spellings of Jemina

Jemina is not the most common spelling — Regina is, with 31.3% against Jemina's 0.02%.

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.

Jemina around the world

Where Jemina 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 & Wales
    1997–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002
  • France
    1982–2023
    #6,613
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1984–1984
    #661
    in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jemina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,106
1982
Peak year
1994
10 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
111
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jemina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JemiahJemmahKaminaRavinaAalinaYasinaMasinaNavinaValinaYalinaJemmieMubinaZalinaYelinaMilinaJeminiJemilaRejinaNalinaJemekaJovinaSofinaYaminaSolina

Sibling names for Jemina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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