Kemiah

#16,127 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kemiah has been given to 177 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #16,127 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Kemiah, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kemiah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,127
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kemiah 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kemiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kemiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kemiah was born before 2009 — so the typical Kemiah is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
177
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Choose a decade

2000s — 48.0% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Kemiah 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
+357
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,213
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,713
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 2008 (17)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,574
2008

Spellings of Kemiah

Kemiah is not the most common spelling — Kenia is, with 11.7% against Kemiah's 0.20%.

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.

Kemiah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,127
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,213
Best rank ever
#7,574
2008
Peak year
2008
17 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
177
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kemiah

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

Sibling names for Kemiah

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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