Meaning not yet researched.
Jemima: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #713 in 1885.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #713 in 1885; #3,544 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jemima in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,544 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1885, at #713.
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Jemima: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #713 in 1885 · most girls in one year: 64 (2018).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Jemima, making it the 3,544th most common girls’ name of the year, down 592 places from #2,952 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 56 girls named Jemima in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #713, reached in 1885. The most girls given the name in a single year was 64, in 2018. For comparison, it was #4,182 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jemima in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 1,832 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 442 babies named Jemima.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 482 US girls were named Jemima; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jemimah and Yemima are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mima.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jemimah (562), Yemima (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,544 | — | — |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,707 | — | — |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,112 | — | — |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,416 | — | — |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,948 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,182 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,745 | — | — |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,744 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,523 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,323 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,980 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,981 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,899 | — | — |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,019 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,915 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,621 | — | — |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,766 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,300 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,304 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,782 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,732 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,515 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,622 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,953 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,927 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,621 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,919 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,202 | — | — |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,054 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,404 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,683 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,517 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,506 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,901 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,608 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,552 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,694 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,106 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,934 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,188 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,426 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,925 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,327 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,983 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,587 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,956 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,555 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,165 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,825 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,031 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,009 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1893 | 13 | #846 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1891 | 10 | #916 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #821 | — | — |
| 1885 | 10 | #713 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #763 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #864 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #967 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #879 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).