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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 17,348 of them was named Semaj, which outranked 90.6% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,913Simran110
- #1,913Tanvi110
- #1,913Taylin110
- #1,927Semaj109
- #1,927Abbigale109
- #1,927Adrianne109
- #1,927Angelia109
- #1,949Adria108
- #1,949August108
- #1,949Candy108
Tied with 21 names at #1,927; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 6,036 of them was named Semaj, which outranked 95.2% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.