Invented in the 1970s, Semaj was a pretty rare name that slowly grew in popularity. It is of American origin and was created by spelling James backwards.
Semaj is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
The name Semaj isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Semaj ranks 935. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Semaj. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Semaj.
Invented in the 1970s, Semaj was a pretty rare name that slowly grew in popularity. It is of American origin and was created by spelling James backwards.
Semaj is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Semaj cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #516 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2009. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Semaj, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Semaj seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Semaj was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
198 babies were named Semaj in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,021,684 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Semaj ranked 1,013 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Semaj, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 28 states are home to men and boys named Semaj. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Semaj living in one state or another. If your name is Semaj and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Louisiana, which has the most people named Semaj relative to the population, you still have to ask 10,541 men and boys their names before you hear Semaj as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Semaj is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Semaj 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 Semaj, you can simply say:
Sun
Elephant
Mouse
Apple
Joker
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Semaj
Semaj
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
E
M
A
J
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.
S
E
M
A
J
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. Semaj sounds like this:
