Shem Tov Boy's nameOrigin: biblicalIn Israel: rising
NechemyaIn Hebrew: נחמיה · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: נְחֶמְיָהRomanization: nekhemyá
Nechemya (Hebrew: נחמיה) is a boy's name of biblical origin. 1,597 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 29 boys and ranked #407. Its peak year was 2017, with 45 babies.
- People in Israel
- 1,597
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 29
- rank #407
- Peak year
- 2017
- 45 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Nechemya
In Hebrew letters the name is נחמיה, read right to left. Nechemya is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "nekhemyá" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- Nehemiah (the sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh)
- Nehemiah (a governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Nehemiah
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Nechemya by year in Israel
How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Nechemya
How do you write Nechemya in Hebrew?
Nechemya is written נחמיה in Hebrew (with vowel points: נְחֶמְיָה). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "nekhemyá".
How many people in Israel are named Nechemya?
1,597 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name נחמיה: 0 women and 1,597 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.
Is Nechemya a boy's or a girl's name?
In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 100.0% of the people named נחמיה are men.
What does the name Nechemya mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "Nehemiah (the sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh)"
Sources
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.