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Nehemias: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 111 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,550 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Nehemias in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,550 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nehemias: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 111 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,550 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 111 (2025).
In 2025, 111 US boys were named Nehemias, making it the 1,550th most common boys’ name of the year, up 98 places from #1,648 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 103 boys named Nehemias in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,550, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 111. For comparison, it was #1,777 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nehemias in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 1,891 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 781 babies named Nehemias.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 954 US boys were named Nehemias; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,388 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nehemias ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #984 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Neemias are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Neemias (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.
No nicknames listed for Nehemias 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #984 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,043 | #1,481 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,137 | #692 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,208 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,264 | #1,772 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,319 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,391 | #1,340 |
| California | 13 | #1,407 | #2,465 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,414 | #1,254 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 111 | #1,550 |
| 2024 | — | — | 103 | #1,648 |
| 2023 | — | — | 101 | #1,691 |
| 2022 | — | — | 76 | #2,017 |
| 2021 | — | — | 86 | #1,821 |
| 2020 | — | — | 84 | #1,796 |
| 2019 | — | — | 102 | #1,619 |
| 2018 | — | — | 100 | #1,637 |
| 2017 | — | — | 102 | #1,592 |
| 2016 | — | — | 89 | #1,749 |
| 2015 | — | — | 86 | #1,777 |
| 2014 | — | — | 74 | #1,953 |
| 2013 | — | — | 59 | #2,219 |
| 2012 | — | — | 54 | #2,374 |
| 2011 | — | — | 68 | #2,014 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,618 |
| 2009 | — | — | 45 | #2,737 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,664 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,328 |
| 2006 | — | — | 66 | #2,030 |
| 2005 | — | — | 38 | #2,833 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,548 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,930 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,744 |
| 2001 | — | — | 23 | #3,690 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #4,023 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,947 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,346 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,547 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,845 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,024 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,465 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,662 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,533 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,390 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,083 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,722 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,995 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,303 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,610 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,058 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,158 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,963 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,960 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,293 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,632 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,995 |
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).