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Kemuel

#3,998 in 2025Boys' name

Raised by God

Kemuel has been given to 612 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #3,998 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Kemuel, 2025

1 in 123,000

Kemuel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kemuel: meaning, origin, and history

Raised by God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kemuel means

Kemuel means “raised by God”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 612 boys were recorded with the name Kemuel between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,549 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,691 in 2020 to #3,998 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,810 in 2015 to #3,998 in 2025.

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.

How common is Kemuel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,998
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kemuel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kemuel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kemuels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kemuel was born before 2012 — so the typical Kemuel is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
612
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (205).

Is Kemuel 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
+383
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−307
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+812
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.1%
Peak was 2017 (31)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,549
2017

Spellings of Kemuel

Kemuel is not the most common spelling — Samuel is, with 97.3% against Kemuel's 0.07%.

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 Kemuel is used

Across 1910–2025, Kemuel was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 396,178 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kemuel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kemuel around the world

Where Kemuel 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
    2008–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #3,546
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kemuel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,998
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 307
Best rank ever
#3,549
2017
Peak year
2017
31 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
612
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Kemuel

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

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Sibling names for Kemuel

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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