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Nehemia

#11,598 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; the Bible origin

Nehemia has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #11,598 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Nehemia, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nehemia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; the Bible origin

the Bible

What Nehemia means

Nehemia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nehemia is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include the Bible.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Nehemia is pronounced /ne.heˈmi.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 75 boys were recorded with the name Nehemia between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2006; its best national rank was #9,308 in 2006.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,290 in 2015 to #11,598 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nehemia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,598
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nehemia 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nehemia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nehemias were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
75
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Nehemia 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
+320
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,308
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2006 (8)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,308
2006

Spellings of Nehemia

Nehemia is not the most common spelling — Nehemiah is, with 89.1% against Nehemia's 0.31%.

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.

Nehemia around the world

Where Nehemia 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.

  • France
    2005–2016
    #6,706
    in 2016

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nehemia by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,598
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,308
2006
Peak year
2006
8 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Nehemia

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

NehemyahNehoraiNehamiahNechemiaNehalNehkiJeramiaNehanNehkaiJeremiaNehimiahNehitanNehmiahNehemiasNehemiyahJerimiaGeremiaNehaanMiaNehemiahJamia

Sibling names for Nehemia

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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