Gemmalee
#9,671 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gemmalee has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 2022. In 2025 it ranked #9,671 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Gemmalee, 2025
1 in 332,000
Gemmalee over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gemmalee?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,671
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gemmalee sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gemmalee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gemmalees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gemmalee was born before 2023 — so the typical Gemmalee is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 58
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Gemmalee 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
- −3,192
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 40.0%
- Peak was 2023 (25)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 157.5% average annual change
Spellings of Gemmalee
Gemmalee is not the most common spelling — Emmalee is, with 66.0% against Gemmalee's 0.42%.
Where Gemmalee is used
Across 1910–2025, Gemmalee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,347,319 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 in —
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. Gemmalee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gemmalee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gemmalee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gemmalee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.