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Nemanja

Boys' name

No + flaw

Nemanja has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2001, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Nemanja, 2012

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nemanja: meaning, origin, and history

No + flaw

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nemanja means

Nemanja means “no + flaw”, associated with ne and mana.

Origin, language, and formation

Nemanja is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Nemanja comes through Proto-Slavic *maniti.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 50 boys were recorded with the name Nemanja between 1999 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2001; its best national rank was #8,947 in 2001.

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 Nemanja?

Nemanja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nemanja 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 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nemanja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nemanjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nemanja was born before 2006 — so the typical Nemanja is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
50
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 58.0% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Nemanja 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
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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 2001 (7)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,947
2001

Nemanja around the world

Where Nemanja 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
    2003–2010
    #3,332
    in 2010
  • France
    1992–2022
    #5,675
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1982–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nemanja by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,947
2001
Peak year
2001
7 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nemanja

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

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Sibling names for Nemanja

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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