Name meaning & stats
Nehemiah
Nehemiah (Hebrew origin). 22,027 US babies since 1940, peak 2010.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Hebrew
In US birth records
Peak year: 2010
22,027 US babies were named Nehemiah between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Nehemiah (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Nehemiah is the main spelling
- Nehemiah 99%
- Nemiah 1%
- Nehemyah <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2010)