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Gema

#1,996 in 2025Girls' name

Gem

Gema has been given to 2,919 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #1,996 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Gema, 2025

1 in 34,500

Gema over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gema: meaning, origin, and history

Gem

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gema means

Gema means “gem”, associated with gemma.

Origin, language, and formation

Gema is used in Spanish.

Gema comes through Italian Gemma and Latin gemma.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,919 girls were recorded with the name Gema between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,581 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,202 in 2020 to #1,996 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,419 in 2015 to #1,996 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gema?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,500
96 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,996
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,938 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gema sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,938 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gemas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gema was born before 2007 — so the typical Gema is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,919
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (681).

Is Gema rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−258
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+206
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+423
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.26×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.8%
Peak was 2022 (125)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,581
1999

Spellings of Gema

Gema is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 28.9% against Gema's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gema is used

Across 2016–2025, Gema was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 14,983 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 9,091
  3. 3Arizona1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 25,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  8. 8Indiana1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Gema around the world

Where Gema ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1926–1973
    #2,384
    in 1973
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gema

People whose public names include Gema, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gema in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gema. Linked forms have their own page here.

EmaGemGemmaEmanuelaGemimaGémima

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gema by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,996
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 206
Best rank ever
#1,581
1999
Peak year
2022
125 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,919
Count in 2025
96

Names similar to Gema

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Gema

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gema, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Gema

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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