Jemima

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Jemima is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 54 births. Its best rank was 713th, in 1885.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 540.00% of girls
Peak year: 201864 births
Best rank: #713in 1885
Since 1881: 1,783people given the name

Babies named Jemima, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

1,783 girls have been named Jemima in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 64 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2010s alone account for 25%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Jemima
1880s	55
1890s	63
1900s	50
1910s	97
1920s	76
1930s	24
1940s	11
1960s	16
1970s	86
1980s	113
1990s	175
2000s	332
2010s	442
2020s	243

In 2018, its biggest year

Jemima was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Jemima

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.