Nehemie
#16,576 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nehemie has been given to 271 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #16,576 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Nehemie, 2025
1 in 663,000
Nehemie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nehemie?
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
- #16,576
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nehemie sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nehemie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nehemies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nehemie was born before 2006 — so the typical Nehemie is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 29.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 271
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (80).
Is Nehemie 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
- −7,774
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,899
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.5%
- Peak was 2005 (13)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 57.8% average annual change
Spellings of Nehemie
Nehemie is not the most common spelling — Nohemi is, with 58.0% against Nehemie's 7.2%.
Where Nehemie is used
Across 1910–2025, Nehemie was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 357,916 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Nehemie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nehemie around the world
Where Nehemie 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.
- France1991–2025#1,735in 2025
- Canada1998–2017#3,188in 2017
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nehemie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nehemie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nehemie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.