Nehemias
#1,547 for boys in 2025, 111 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 111 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,891since 1968
Nehemias over time
Rank among boys' names. Nehemias has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,547 | 111 |
| 2024 | #1,641 | 103 |
| 2023 | #1,681 | 101 |
| 2022 | #2,000 | 76 |
| 2021 | #1,815 | 86 |
| 2020 | #1,788 | 84 |
| 2019 | #1,614 | 102 |
| 2018 | #1,625 | 100 |
| 2017 | #1,582 | 102 |
| 2016 | #1,739 | 89 |
| 2015 | #1,767 | 86 |
| 2014 | #1,945 | 74 |
| 2013 | #2,205 | 59 |
| 2012 | #2,358 | 54 |
| 2011 | #1,999 | 68 |
| 2010 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #2,632 | 47 |
| 2007 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #2,010 | 66 |
| 2005 | #2,803 | 38 |
| 2004 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #3,838 | 22 |
| 2002 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
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| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
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| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nehemias! It came in at #3,673, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Nehemias is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#988 · 1 in 7,855
- California#1,405 · 1 in 19,196
- Texas#1,796 · 1 in 25,006
Best ever in a state: #572 in Maryland, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #988 | 7 | 1 in 7,855 |
| California | #1,405 | 12 | 1 in 19,196 |
| Texas | #1,796 | 7 | 1 in 25,006 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nehemias
- 94 spots since 2024 (#1,641 → #1,547)
- 241 spots since 2020 (#1,788 → #1,547)
- 220 spots since 2015 (#1,767 → #1,547)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2025 at #1,547 (111 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,388 boys born in 2025 were named Nehemias (0.01%)
- 41.3% of all boys named Nehemias (781) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,673 (1968) | #3,673 |
| 1970s | 13 | #4,012 (1976) | #4,557 |
| 1980s | 59 | #3,459 (1984) | #5,387 |
| 1990s | 112 | #4,197 (1998) | #5,267 |
| 2000s | 359 | #2,010 (2006) | #3,192 |
| 2010s | 781 | #1,582 (2017) | #1,941 |
| 2020s | 561 | #1,547 (2025) | #1,745 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nehemias in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 27,930 of them was named Nehemias, which outranked 86.1% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #1,999Nehemias68
- #1,999Aizen68
- #1,999Angus68
- #1,999Arion68
- #2,017Amaury67
- #2,017Aric67
- #2,017Benaiah67
Tied with 17 names at #1,999; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.