girls:
80 births since 1999
#5636 (1st percentile)
boys:
222 births since 1914
#4364 (5th percentile)
overall:
302 births since 1914
#7437 (4th percentile)
The name Nemiah is the #7,437 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 302 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,364 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 222 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,636 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1999.
Nemiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Nemiah is available in 41 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 12 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nemiah has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Nemiah were boys.
For boys, Nemiah reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #873) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Nemiah ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 32.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nemiah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #933) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nemiah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Nemiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.1% confident that Nemiah is pronounced as neh-MAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nuh-MAI-uh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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