Semaj
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births · #1,026 for boys in 2025, 217 births
Given to boys 78.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 374 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,421since 1971
Semaj over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 | #1,026 | 217 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | #1,062 | 205 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 | #905 | 257 |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 | #1,237 | 159 |
| 2021 | #3,935 | 37 | #1,161 | 171 |
| 2020 | #4,880 | 26 | #1,149 | 169 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | #1,080 | 185 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 | #1,079 | 183 |
| 2017 | #2,816 | 60 | #1,029 | 195 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 | #1,037 | 191 |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 | #1,012 | 201 |
| 2014 | #2,969 | 57 | #952 | 221 |
| 2013 | #2,870 | 59 | #849 | 251 |
| 2012 | #2,078 | 92 | #771 | 295 |
| 2011 | #2,043 | 95 | #627 | 374 |
| 2010 | #1,809 | 113 | #675 | 354 |
| 2009 | #1,676 | 133 | #672 | 362 |
| 2008 | #1,927 | 109 | #698 | 338 |
| 2007 | #1,868 | 112 | #733 | 310 |
| 2006 | #2,031 | 97 | #695 | 319 |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 | #701 | 293 |
| 2004 | #2,240 | 78 | #737 | 254 |
| 2003 | #2,125 | 82 | #767 | 230 |
| 2002 | #2,379 | 67 | #753 | 230 |
| 2001 | #2,411 | 65 | #711 | 248 |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 | #1,027 | 142 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 | #936 | 156 |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 | #1,072 | 122 |
| 1997 | #4,007 | 27 | #1,310 | 87 |
| 1996 | #3,505 | 32 | #1,149 | 103 |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 | #1,338 | 77 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | #1,454 | 66 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | #1,333 | 73 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | #1,659 | 52 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | #1,919 | 40 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #1,464 | 59 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #1,705 | 45 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,098 | 14 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,018 | 14 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | — | #2,826 | 14 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #2,946 | 12 |
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| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Semaj! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Semaj
- 36 spots since 2024 (#1,062 → #1,026)
- 123 spots since 2020 (#1,149 → #1,026)
- 14 spots since 2015 (#1,012 → #1,026)
- Biggest jump: 332 spots in 2023 (#1,237 → #905)
- Biggest drop: 157 spots in 2024 (#905 → #1,062)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2011 at #627 (374 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2001–2014
- Highest: 1 in 5,078 boys born in 2011 were named Semaj (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,871 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 36.7% of all boys named Semaj (2,726) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1984, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 81 | #2,826 (1976) | #3,566 |
| 1980s | 151 | #1,705 (1989) | #3,228 |
| 1990s | 835 | #936 (1999) | #1,363 |
| 2000s | 2,726 | #672 (2009) | #749 |
| 2010s | 2,450 | #627 (2011) | #911 |
| 2020s | 1,178 | #905 (2023) | #1,090 |
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.
Semaj in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 353,689 of them was named Semaj, which outranked 13.2% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 748 names at #4,907; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.