Jemima is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jemima is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Jemima. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jemima is #3,122 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jemima.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Jemima in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 280 women and girls named Jemima, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 280 women and girls named Jemima live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Jemima. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Jemima lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Jemima and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Jemima relative to its female population is Florida. And even there, only one in 54,558 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Jemima.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Jemima is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jemima and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jemima, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Mouse
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jemima
Jemima
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jemima sounds like this: