MEANING & HISTORY
What does Nema mean?
Comedian Nema Williams’s official biography explicitly explains his exact first name as meaning sun in Tibetan. The same account places his childhood in Kathmandu and mentions his Tibetan stepfather, providing concrete context for that individual naming explanation.
This supports an attributed Tibetan sun account without deciding the origins of every Nema. Arabic, Hebrew and other lookalike proposals should not be merged into one universal meaning merely because the Roman spelling is shared.
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- Nela♀Short form of names containing nel
- Nena♀Nina variant, also coinciding with Spanish baby girl
- Neal♂Variant of Neil; its older root is disputed
- Nedra♀Fictional island name in McCutcheon’s 1905 novel
- Neil♂English form of Irish Niall
- Nelia♀Familiar form in the Cornelis/Cornelia family
- Nene·An affectionate address to a young girl in Tagalog; documented public bearers also include a man.
- Neo♂Gift in Tswana; new in the Greek-prefix account
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Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 1 elected-candidate records ·
NEMA
· CSV row 15,827 · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.