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How popular is the name Jemima?
Births per year, rank history and how many Jemimas are alive today.
Jemima (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 444th in 2025 with 90 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2008, when 339 babies were given the name, the 157th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 460 in 2024 before climbing back to the 444th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 6,500 babies have been named Jemima in England and Wales since 1996.
The Jemima you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old. Half of all Jemimas born in England and Wales are between 13 and 27, and there are at least 7,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Jemima.
How many babies are named Jemima each year?
Where does Jemima rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Jemima most popular?
Jemima peaked in 2008, when 339 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Jemima?
At least 7,700 people named Jemima born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Jemima?
Most living Jemimas are between 13 and 27; the most common age is about 18.
Is Jemima becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.