Nema
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nema has been given to 363 babies in the U.S. since 1904. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Nema, 2024
1 in 478,000
Nema 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Nema over time
In 2024, Nema went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Nema?
Nema had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nema sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nemas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nema was born before 1939 — so the typical Nema is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 23.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 154
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (80).
Is Nema 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2012 (13)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.5% average annual change
Spellings of Nema
Nema is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 22.7% against Nema'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.
Nema around the world
Where Nema 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 & Wales2012–2012#5,876in 2012
- France2002–2025#6,056in 2025
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nema by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Nema
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nema
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.