Given name & surname
Nehemia
“God provides comfort”
Nehemia is a variant of Nehemiah. One Hebrew interpretation is “God provides comfort.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nehemia is a variant of Nehemiah. One Hebrew interpretation is “God provides comfort.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Nehemia is a variant of Nehemiah. An origin associated with Nehemiah is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nehemia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 75 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,602 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,602 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 215 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.
Nehemia’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Nehemia as a surname has a diminutive in Neijonen. Nehemia has a related form in Nehemiah. In German usage, Nehemia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Nehemiah.
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Around the world
Nehemia has relatives in 20 languages.
13 related names in 20 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Nechemiaequivalent
- NeemiasPortuguese
- НеемияRussian
- נחמיהequivalent
- Nehemíaswar, Spanish
- NehemeiaWelsh
- NehemiášCzech, Slovak
- NehemijaSlovene, Latvian
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People named Nehemia
- Nehemia LevtzionIsraeli historian (1935-2003)
- Nehemia GordonAmerican-Israeli biblical scholar, philologist, and author (born 1972)
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