Given name & surname
Jemina
“one who is listened to”
Jemina is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is listened to.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is listened to.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jemina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 111
- 0 boys · 111 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 303 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jemina’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Jemina has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jemima. Jemina has a related form in Jemeana. Jemina has a related form in Jemeanah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Jemminalikely variant
- Jeminnalikely variant
- Jemeanahvariant
- Jemeanavariant
- Jemienahvariant
- Jemienavariant
- Jemeinahvariant
- Jemeinavariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jemina
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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