Meaning not yet researched.
Nehemiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 743 in 2025. Its best rank was #336 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #336 in 2010; #429 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Nehemiah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#429 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #336.
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Nehemiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 743 boys in 2025. Peak: #336 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 933 (2010).
In 2025, 743 US boys were named Nehemiah, making it the 429th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3 places from #426 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 742 boys named Nehemiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #336, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 933. For comparison, it was #362 in 2015 and #2,399 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nehemiah in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 7 babies. In all, 22,439 US babies have been given the name, 2.8% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,192 babies named Nehemiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,983 US boys were named Nehemiah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 930. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,299 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nehemiah ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #236 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nemiah, Nehemie and Nehemyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nemiah (310), Nehemie (271), Nehemyah (106), Neamiah (98), Neomiah (86), Nehemia (75), Nehamiah (57), Nyemiah (32), Nehemiyah (21), Neimiah (15), Nehimiah (13), Neyamiah (11), and more.
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.
No nicknames listed for Nehemiah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 5 | #236 | #226 |
| Virginia | 32 | #274 | #282 |
| Georgia | 44 | #283 | #283 |
| Washington | 24 | #317 | #423 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #323 | #284 |
| Texas | 114 | #330 | #367 |
| Maryland | 16 | #339 | #220 |
| Nevada | 9 | #351 | #324 |
| North Carolina | 32 | #360 | #351 |
| Florida | 54 | #365 | #268 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #401 | #360 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #402 | #686 |
| Tennessee | 20 | #404 | #330 |
| Ohio | 27 | #406 | #326 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #409 | #122 |
| Colorado | 15 | #412 | #307 |
| Alabama | 13 | #415 | #336 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #418 | #326 |
| Arizona | 18 | #425 | #355 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #430 | #361 |
| California | 74 | #438 | #367 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #473 | #333 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #480 | #503 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #493 | #505 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #510 | #473 |
| Michigan | 16 | #533 | #403 |
| Indiana | 13 | #535 | #450 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #538 | #570 |
| Kansas | 6 | #572 | #383 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #609 | #526 |
| New York | 25 | #612 | #495 |
| Missouri | 7 | #770 | #386 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #780 | #528 |
| Illinois | 9 | #913 | #384 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,189 | 743 | #429 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,496 | 742 | #426 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,106 | 725 | #430 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,178 | 697 | #447 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,702 | 765 | #406 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,611 | 820 | #377 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,356 | 863 | #370 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,415 | 803 | #396 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,895 | 895 | #370 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,563 | 930 | #358 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,188 | 909 | #362 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,425 | 889 | #360 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,849 | 931 | #343 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,209 | 906 | #342 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,496 | 867 | #348 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,160 | 933 | #336 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,742 | 853 | #360 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,089 | 871 | #358 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,415 | 876 | #362 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,504 | 826 | #360 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,738 | 545 | #466 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,909 | 385 | #580 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,779 | 355 | #600 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,339 | 288 | #654 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,506 | 263 | #687 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,911 | 254 | #696 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,283 | 174 | #871 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,841 | 179 | #827 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,245 | 126 | #1,015 |
| 1996 | — | — | 122 | #1,022 |
| 1995 | — | — | 113 | #1,059 |
| 1994 | — | — | 90 | #1,217 |
| 1993 | — | — | 80 | #1,275 |
| 1992 | — | — | 94 | #1,140 |
| 1991 | — | — | 88 | #1,187 |
| 1990 | — | — | 71 | #1,324 |
| 1989 | — | — | 65 | #1,368 |
| 1988 | — | — | 57 | #1,384 |
| 1987 | — | — | 76 | #1,105 |
| 1986 | — | — | 73 | #1,097 |
| 1985 | — | — | 75 | #1,076 |
| 1984 | — | — | 74 | #1,039 |
| 1983 | — | — | 74 | #1,033 |
| 1982 | — | — | 81 | #1,012 |
| 1981 | — | — | 71 | #1,082 |
| 1980 | — | — | 59 | #1,198 |
| 1979 | — | — | 62 | #1,150 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,346 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #1,986 |
| 1976 | — | — | 27 | #1,860 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,926 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,031 |
| 1973 | — | — | 17 | #2,378 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,800 |
| 1971 | — | — | 15 | #2,518 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,376 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,645 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,855 |
| 1967 | — | — | 16 | #2,011 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,738 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,809 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,383 |
| 1963 | — | — | 23 | #1,685 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,470 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,120 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,282 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,497 |
| 1958 | — | — | 20 | #1,822 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,847 |
| 1956 | — | — | 22 | #1,706 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,952 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,558 |
| 1953 | — | — | 23 | #1,621 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #1,989 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,219 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,399 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,803 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,615 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,647 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,524 |
| 1944 | — | — | 16 | #1,796 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,681 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #2,022 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,601 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,620 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,771 |
| 1938 | — | — | 16 | #1,794 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,891 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #3,072 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,008 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,087 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,885 |
| 1932 | — | — | 20 | #1,632 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,596 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,561 |
| 1929 | — | — | 14 | #2,166 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,787 |
| 1927 | — | — | 13 | #2,377 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #2,049 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,783 |
| 1924 | — | — | 22 | #1,711 |
| 1923 | — | — | 22 | #1,682 |
| 1922 | — | — | 21 | #1,741 |
| 1921 | — | — | 18 | #1,960 |
| 1920 | — | — | 26 | #1,488 |
| 1919 | — | — | 22 | #1,611 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,490 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,664 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,359 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,260 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,149 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,120 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,839 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,492 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #817 |
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).