Jemima

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jemima: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jemima: Recorded since 1984, with a gap of 11 years, it reached #157 in 2008, and it stood at #460 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
41years from first to last
#157highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Jemima's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#228
1997	#173
1998	#223
1999	#196
2000	#204
2001	#182
2002	#206
2003	#193
2004	#189
2005	#162
2006	#179
2007	#170
2008	#157
2009	#171
2010	#188
2011	#176
2012	#196
2013	#222
2014	#211
2015	#213
2016	#221
2017	#231
2018	#297
2019	#273
2020	#320
2021	#371
2022	#416
2023	#449
2024	#460

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2017: #231 among girls in England and Wales, #432 among girls in Northern Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1984–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1984
First recorded at #516 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1984 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #157 among girls in England and Wales, in 2008 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #460 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Jemima appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 6,454 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1984.

Jemima across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jemima's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#228 (1996)	#157 (2008)	#460 (2024)	29 of 29	6,454 (1996–2024)	339 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#516 (1984)	#516 (1984)	#677 (2012)	4 of 29	17 (1984–2012)	5 (2005)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#286 (2002)	#286 (2002)	#432 (2017)	5 of 16	17 (2002–2017)	4 (2002)

Jemima by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jemima in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	848	4 of 10	212
2000sbusiest	2,714	10 of 10	271
2010s	2,345	10 of 10	235
2020s	547	5 of 10	109

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 271 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1996 and 1997, when recorded births rose by 82, from 177 to 259.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jemima appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1984 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #157 in England and Wales in 2008.

Jemima's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#460	90	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#449	89	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#416	102	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#371	124	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#320	142	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#273	178	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#297	159	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#231	217	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#221	237	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#213	255	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#211	252	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#222	230	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#196	254	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#176	296	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#188	267	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#171	303	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#157	339	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#170	319	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#179	298	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#162	314	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#189	252	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#193	240	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#206	213	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#182	230	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#204	206	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#196	226	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#223	186	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#173	259	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#228	177	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#358	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#286	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1984 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #157, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 339 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 18 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Jem · #764, 30y
Jemimah · #664, 29y
Jemma · #73, 52y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Liberty · #157, 29y
Inaya · #156, 26y
Lochlainn · #154, 25y
Neill · #154, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Enya · #158, 37y
Melina · #156, 41y
Aya · #154, 35y
Eimhear · #154, 26y

Jemima was ranked #157 in England and Wales · Girls in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jemima and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jemima without appearing here.

Jemima moved ahead of

Aimee Compare
In 2014 they stood at #211 and #207 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #213 and #352.
Kathleen Compare
In 1996 they stood at #228 and #227 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #173 and #288.
Alison Compare
In 1996 they stood at #228 and #225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #173 and #268.
Vanessa Compare
In 1996 they stood at #228 and #202 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #173 and #263.

Moved ahead of Jemima

Thea Compare
In 2012 they stood at #196 and #225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #222 and #121.
Nora Compare
In 2017 they stood at #231 and #250 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #297 and #197.
Astrid Compare
In 2019 they stood at #273 and #316 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #320 and #241.
Alyssa Compare
In 2017 they stood at #231 and #242 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #297 and #229.

Moved the opposite way to Jemima

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jemima went from #228 to #460 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jemima went from #228 to #460 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jemima went from #228 to #460 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jemima went from #228 to #460 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Jemima

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jemima went from #228 to #460 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jemima went from #228 to #460 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jemima went from #228 to #460 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jemima went from #228 to #460 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1984 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #157 in England and Wales in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jemima

Jemima at a glance

What stands out in Jemima's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jemima across 3 official records

Jemima by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jemima appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Jemima at a glance

What stands out in Jemima's record

Jemima across 3 official records

Jemima by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jemima appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Jemima

Jemima and the names beside it

Jemima moved ahead of

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