Nehemiah

maleStatistical record

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

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

Nehemiah: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #655, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#655highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598
2008	#5545
2012	#5876
2024	#5891

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 boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1108 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nehemiah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 468 births with the name.

Nehemiah across 2 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.

Nehemiah'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 · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#874 (2019)	#1108 (2024)	27 of 29	468 (1996–2024)	34 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#4598 (2004)	#4598 (2004)	#5891 (2024)	4 of 21	12 (2004–2024)	3 (2004)

Nehemiah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Nehemiah in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	3 of 10	3
2000s	111	9 of 10	12
2010s	224	10 of 10	22
2020sbusiest	123	5 of 10	25

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 25 births a year.

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

Nehemiah 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #655 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Nehemiah'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#942	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1534	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1139	24	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1085	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#874	34	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1097	25	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1157	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1024	28	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1093	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1247	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1191	22	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1447	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1620	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1175	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1206	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1079	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1469	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #655, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 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

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Anuoluwapo · #655, 26y
Areeba · #655, 29y
Benita · #655, 27y
Kemi · #655, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aminat · #655, 18y
Anuoluwapo · #655, 26y
Areeba · #655, 29y
Azhar · #655, 28y

Nehemiah was ranked #655 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2024. 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.

Nehemiah 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 Nehemiah without appearing here.

Nehemiah moved ahead of

Robyn Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3009 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1620 and #4678.
Harald Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #4052.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3009 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #4052.
Herman Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1175 and #3744.

Moved ahead of Nehemiah

Hudson Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2901 and #2419.
Theodor Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1247 and #1339 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1093 and #1012.

Moved the opposite way to Nehemiah

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nehemiah went from #2357 to #1108 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nehemiah went from #2357 to #1108 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nehemiah went from #2357 to #1108 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nehemiah went from #2357 to #1108 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Nehemiah

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nehemiah went from #2357 to #1108 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nehemiah went from #2357 to #1108 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nehemiah went from #2357 to #1108 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nehemiah went from #2357 to #1108 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #655 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nehemiah

Nehemiah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nehemiah across 2 official records

Nehemiah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Nehemiah across 2 official records

Nehemiah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Nehemiah and the names beside it

Nehemiah moved ahead of

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