Jemmah

#12,466 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jemmah has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #12,466 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Jemmah, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Jemmah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,466
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jemmah 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jemmah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jemmahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jemmah was born before 2015 — so the typical Jemmah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
75.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
48
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Jemmah 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
+3,715
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,161
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.8%
Peak was 2012 (9)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,382
2014

Spellings of Jemmah

Jemmah is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 94.5% against Jemmah's <0.01%.

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.

Jemmah around the world

Where Jemmah 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.

  • South Australia
    1995–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jemmah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,466
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,715
Best rank ever
#11,382
2014
Peak year
2012
9 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
48
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Jemmah

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Sibling names for Jemmah

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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