Jemimah

Peak · girls
2018 · 31 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
562
since 1980

Jemimah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Jemimah has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #4,458, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,32518
2024#4,66929
2023#5,24824
2022#5,30924
2021#4,71928
2020#4,75727
2019#4,65329
2018#4,45831
2017#4,81128
2016#4,73429
2015#4,48831
2014#5,45624
2013#5,01327
2012#6,34120
2011#7,43616
2010#6,18221
2009#8,05815
2008#9,47612
2007#12,6768
2006#8,23714
2005#10,12810
2004#7,07716
2003#7,99813
2002#13,5956
2001#13,5216
2000#10,7458
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1996#9,5818
1995#10,5147
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1991#9,3368
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First appearance
1980

The first year at least five girls were named Jemimah! It came in at #10,392, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1980–1990, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Jemimah is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Jemimah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jemimah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,656 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #6,325)
  • 1,568 spots since 2020 (#4,757 → #6,325)
  • 1,837 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #6,325)
Rise & fade · girls
38 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1980
  • Peaked 2018 at #4,458 (31 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 54,873
  • Highest: 1 in 54,873 girls born in 2018 were named Jemimah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 45.6% of all girls named Jemimah (256) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s10#10,392 (1980)#10,535
1990s38#9,336 (1991)#11,638
2000s108#7,077 (2004)#10,151
2010s256#4,458 (2018)#5,357
2020s150#4,669 (2024)#5,171

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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